The New Yoder

by Dula, Peter; Huebner, Chris K.

• ISBN13: 9781608990443
• ISBN10: 1608990443
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Cascade Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Peter Dula is Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Eastern Mennonite University.
Chris K. Hutbner is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Canadian Menno nite University

Table of Contents

Introducstion	p. ix
Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder's The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited	p. 1
The Christian Witness in the Earthly City: John Howard Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor	p. 18
John Howard Yoder's Systematic Defense of Christian Pacifism	p. 42
The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder's Eschatological Genealogy of Morals	p. 70
Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist	p. 90
Yoder's Patience and/with Derrida's Différance	p. 106
Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ: Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed	p. 121
On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Politics of Land and Return	p. 142
Memory in the Politics of Forgiveness	p. 166
Traumatic Violence and Christian Peacemaking	p. 196
The Wild Patience of John Howard Yoder "Outsiders" and the "Otherness of the Church"	p. 216
Laughing With the World: Possibilities of Hope in John Howard Yoder and Jeffrey Stout	p. 253
Epistemological Violence, Christianity, and the Secular	p. 271
Fracturing Evangelical Recognitions of Christ: Inheriting the Radical Democracy of John Howard Yoder with the Penumbral Vision of Rowan Williams	p. 294
Communio Missionis: Certeau, Yoder, and the Missionary Space of the Church	p. 317
List of Contributors	p. 337
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