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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.
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The New Yoder (Hardcover)
Peter Dula, Chris K. Huebner
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R1,823
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The New Yoder (Paperback)
Peter Dula, Chris K. Huebner; Contributions by Daniel Barber
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R1,115
R891
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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.
Conflicts today regularly break out along religious fault lines,
whether in Iraq, Israel-Palestine, Sudan, or elsewhere. This volume
contains case studies of ways in which Mennonites have contributed
to peacebuilding and reconciliation in multi-religious contexts and
offers a theological rationale for interfaith collaboration.
(Christian)
In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have
engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of
ecclesiology. Throughout this debate, they have found resources for
their arguments in concepts of political philosophy, particularly
communitarianism and political liberalism. In this groundbreaking
study, Peter Dula turns instead to the work of philosopher Stanley
Cavell, examining the ways in which Cavell's understanding of
companionship contributes to the debate over church and community.
Since the 1960s, Stanley Cavell has been the most category-defying
philosopher in North America, as well as one of the least
understood. Philosophers did not know what to make of his deep
engagement with literature and film, or, stranger yet, with his
openness to theological concerns. In this, the first English study
of Cavell and theology, Dula places Cavell in conversation with
some of the philosophers most influential in contemporary theology:
Alasdair MacIntyre, Martha Nussbaum and John Rawls. He then
examines Cavell's relationship to Christian theology, shedding
light on the repeated appearances of the figure of Christ in
Cavell's writings.
Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology finds in Cavell's
account of skepticism and acknowledgment a transformative resource
for theological discussions - not just of ecclesiology, but of sin,
salvation and the existence of God.
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