The New Yoder - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608990443 ISBN 13: 9781608990443

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2010

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

Peter Dula is Professor of Religion and Culture, and Chair of the Department of Bible and Religion at Eastern Mennonite University.

Chris K. Huebner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608990443
• ISBN 13: 9781608990443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Dula Peter