The Activist Impulse

by Burkholder, Jared S.; Cramer, David C.; Marsden, George M.; Shenk, Sara Wenger (AFT)

• ISBN13: 9781608993505
• ISBN10: 1608993507
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-04
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Anabaptists have often felt suspicious of American evangelicalism, and in turn evangelicals have found various reasons to dismiss the Anabaptist witness. Yet at various points in the past as well as the present, evangelicals and Anabaptists have found ample reason for conversation and much to appreciate about each other. The Activist Impulse represents the first book-length examination of the complex relationship between evangelicalism and Anabaptism in the past thirty years. It brings established experts and new voices together in an effort to explore the historical and theological intersection of these two rich traditions. Each of the essays provides fresh insight on at least one characteristic that both evangelicals and Anabaptists share--an impulse to engage society through the pursuit of active Christian witness.

Author Biography

Jared S. Burkholder is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Office of Faith, Learning and Scholarship at Grace College (IN). He has published articles or reviews in several journals, including Fides et Historia, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, and The Mennonite Quarterly Review. David C. Cramer, previously Adjunct Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Bethel College (IN), is currently pursuing a PhD in Religion (Theology) at Baylor University. He has published articles or reviews in several journals, including The Mennonite Quarterly Review, Priscilla Papers, and Philosophia Christi.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction: The Activist Impulse	p. 1
Intersecting Stories: Historical Reflection on the Nexus of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism
Introduction to Part I	p. 9
Activist Impulses across Time: North American Evangelicalism and Anabaptism as Conversation Partners	p. 11
Anabaptism and Evangelicalism Revisited: Healing a Contentious Relationship?	p. 45
Intellectual Hospitality as Historical Method: Moving beyond the Activist Impulse	p. 74
Intersecting Challenges: Anabaptism and the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy
Introduction to Part II	p. 101
Fundamentalists, Modernists, and a Mennonite "Third Way": Reexamining the Career of Bishop Daniel Kauffman	p. 104
"I Submit": Daniel Kauffman and the Legacy of a Yielded Life	p. 129
A Cord of Many Strands: Reexamining Grace Brethren Identity and the Fundamentalism of Alva J. McClain	p. 156
Misfits and Fundamentalists: The Question of Evangelicalism and Defection among Lancaster and Franconia Mennonites	p. 185
Intersecting Concerns: Anabaptist and Evangelical Public Witness
Introduction to Part III	p. 215
Practicing Peace, Embracing Evangelism: Missional Tensions in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church	p. 217
"Pool Tables are the Devil's Playground": Forging an Evangelico-Anabautista Identity in South Texas	p. 237
Re-Baptizing Evangelicalism: American Anabaptists and the 1970s Evangelical Left	p. 262
The Evangelical-Anabaptist Spectrum: The Political Theologies of Francis Schaeffer, John Howard Yoder, and Jim Wallis	p. 292
Intersecting Trajectories: Toward an Evangelical Anabaptist Theology and Praxis
Introduction to Part II	p. 323
"Go Tell that Fox!" Evangelical Anabaptist Reflections on Religion and the Public Square	p. 325
Beyond Anselm: A Biblical and Evangelical Case for Nonviolent Atonement	p. 350
Evangelical Hermeneutics, Anabaptist Ethics: John Howard Yoder, the Solas, and the Question of War	p. 379
Afterword	p. 407
Index	p. 409
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