Anabaptists and Postmodernity

by Biesecker-Mast, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780966502121
• ISBN10: 0966502124
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Cascadia Pub House

Table of Contents

The C. Henry Smith Series	11	(1)
Foreword	12	(3)
J. Denny Weaver
Editors' Preface	15	(4)
Gerald
Susan Biesecker-Mast
Introduction: Anabaptists and Postmodernity: A Risky/Risque Proposition	19	(22)
Susan Biesecker-Mast
Part I: Radical Christianity and Postmodern Theory
The Christian Difference: or Surviving Postmodernism	41	(19)
Stanley Hauerwas
Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of An Errant Postmodernist	60	(15)
Peter C. Blum
``Universal Truths'': Should Anabaptist Theologians Seek to Articulate Them?	75	(16)
Thomas Finger
Part II: Anabaptist Storytelling and Historical Memory
Valuing the Story of Power and Telling a Grander One: Anabaptism and Power Postmodernism in Mutually Enlarging Conversation	91	(15)
Michael A. King
Postmodern Practice and Parody: Dallas Wiebe's Our Asian Journey	106	(14)
Paul Tiessen
Context, Conflict, and Community: South German Mennonites at the Threshold of Modernity, 1750-1850	120	(27)
John D. Roth
Part III: Marginal Voices and Church Polity
When Bloch Pointed to the Cages Outside the Cathedral	147	(13)
Scott Holland
Mennonite Literature and Postmodernism: Writing the `In-Between' Space	160	(15)
Hildi Froese Tiessen
(In)visible Cities, (F)acts of Power, (Hmm)ility, Fathers and (M)others: Anabaptism, Postmodernity, and Mennonite Writing	175	(18)
Jeff Gundy
Part IV: Practical Discipleship and Liturgical Renewal
Recovering the Anabaptist Body (To Separate It for the World)	193	(21)
Gerald Biesecker-Mast
Leitourgia Beyond Altar and Sacrifice: How Then Shall We Worship/Serve God?	214	(19)
John Richard Burkholder
The Lord is Still My Shepherd When I Sing: Experiencing God in Postmodern Anabaptist Worship	233	(18)
Marlene Kropf
Part V: Religious Particularity and Social Identity
Nicaea, Womanist Theology, and Anabaptist Particularity	251	(29)
J. Denny Weaver
Anabaptist Autonomy, Evangelical Engulfment, and Mennonite Mestizaje: Three Postmodern Options	280	(21)
Douglas Jacobsen
The Vow of Stability: A Premodern Way through a Hypermodern World	301	(26)
Gerald W. Schlabach
Part VI: Peace Witness and Political Commitment
Sticks and Stones, Words and Bones: The Body of Christ and the Gospel of Peace	327	(12)
John Stahl-Wert
Christian Pacifism as Friendship with God: MacIntyre, Mennonites, and the Genealogical Tradition	339	(17)
Chris K. Huebner
Anabaptists and Postmodernity: Two Visions of Hope	356
Thomas Heilke
Part VII: Cultural Captivity and Christian Freedom
Postmodern Experiments: Blips or New Revolution?	285	(121)
Leo Driedger
Following Christ in a Postmodern World	406	(9)
J. Lawrence Burkholder
Select Bibliography	415	(14)
Index	429	(8)
The Contributors	437	(3)
The Editors	440