The Church Made Strange for the Nations

by Doerksen, Paul G.; Koop, Karl

• ISBN13: 9781608993987
• ISBN10: 1608993981
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-22
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Christians have sometimes professed that the church ought to be "in the world but not of it," yet the meaning and significance of this conviction has continued to challenge and confound.

Author Biography

Paul G. Doerksen is assistant professor of theology at Canadian Mennonite University. He is the author of Beyond Suspicion: Post-Christendom Protestant Political Theology in John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan (Wipf Stock, 2010). Karl Koop is professor of history and theology at Canadian Mennonite University. He recently published Confessions of Faith in the Anabaptist Tradition, 1527-1660 (2006).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. xi
Harry Huebner: A Servant of the Church	p. 1
In the World but Not of the World: A Johannine Perspective on the Church-World Relationship	p. 9
Building the City for Others: Beyond the Negation of Exile Toward a Future of Common Belonging in Israel-Palestine	p. 21
John Howard Yoder's Ecclesiology: As Seen by an Appreciative Critic	p. 36
Living in the Light of Time: Historicism in Troeltsch and Yoder	p. 52
The Young Karl Barth's Critique of Anabaptism	p. 66
Anabaptist-Mennonite Political Theology: Conceptualizing Universal Ethics in Post-Christendom	p. 80
Making Strange: Harry Huebner's Church-World Distinction	p. 92
"To Serve the Dead": Fidelity and Resistance in Antigone	p. 100
Worship Made Strange	p. 112
Strains in the Voice of the Church Made Strange	p. 123
He Who Brings Light to Dark Places: Christ and the Redemption of Memory	p. 139
Is a Christian University Strange Enough? Reflections on Loving and Hating the University	p. 152
Moving the Historic Wall of Estrangement: A Reflection on the Catholic-Mennonite Dialogue (1998-2003)	p. 161
Pentecost: Learning the Languages of Peace	p. 177
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