Description: The work of John Howard Yoder has become increasingly
influential in recent years. Moreover, it is gaining influence in
some surprising places. No longer restricted to the world of
theological ethicists and Mennonites, Yoder has been discovered as
a refreshing voice by scholars working in many other fields. For
thirty-five years, Yoder was known primarily as an articulate
defender of Christian pacifism against a theological ethics guild
dominated by the Troeltschian assumptions reflected in the work of
Walter Rauschenbusch and Reinhold and Richard Niebuhr. But in the
last decade, there has been a clearly identifiable shift in
direction. A new generation of scholars has begun reading Yoder
alongside figures most often associated with post-structuralism,
neo-Nietzscheanism, and post-colonialism, resulting in original and
productive new readings of his work. At the same time, scholars
from outside of theology and ethics departments, indeed outside of
Christianity itself, like Romand Coles and Daniel Boyarin, have
discovered in Yoder a significant conversation partner for their
own work. This volume collects some of the best of those essays in
hope of encouraging more such work from readers of Yoder and in
hopes of attracting others to his important work. Endorsements:
""The New Yoder is John Howard Yoder as dialogue partner both with
and against the grain of Adorno, Foucault, Derrida, de Certeau,
Horkheimer, Rowan Williams, Said, Stout, Volf, and many more. Here
is patient, Christian theological pacifism beyond the either/ors
that burdened a previous generation: beyond universalism vs.
isolationism, Church vs. world, politics vs. quietism, Scripture
vs. social activism. Here the eschaton meets postmodernity. The
result? Anguished laughter, exilic politics, apocalypse, and
dialogue: the work of Yoder-reading for our time."" --Peter Ochs
University of Virginia About the Contributor(s): Peter Dula is
Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Eastern Mennonite
University. Chris K. Huebner is Associate Professor of Theology and
Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University.
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