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Principalities and Powers is an ambitious analysis of John Howard
Yoder's complex sociological theory. Jamie Pitts' work transcends
ideological boundaries, which have perplexed the many writers who
have approached the legacy of John Howard Yoder after his death in
1997. Although there is much disagreement, a broad consensus is
forming that his theology was, on the one hand, focused on the
social and political meaning of the New Testament accounts of Jesus
Christ and, on the other hand, sociologically reductive,
hermeneutically tendentious and ecclesiologically ambiguous.
Principalities and Powers proposes a revision of Yoder's theology
that maintains its broadly sociological emphasis but corrects for
its apparent methodological, political and metaphysical problems.
Specifically, adjustments are made to his social theory to open it
to spiritual reality, to hone its analytical approach, and to
clarify its political import. To do so his preferred framework for
social criticism, the theology of the principalities and powers, is
examined in the context of his wider work and its critics, and then
synthesized with concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's influential
reflexive sociology.
About the Contributor(s): Jamie Pitts is Assistant Professor of
Anabaptist Studies at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in
Elkhart, Indiana.
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