Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision (eBook, ePUB)

New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method
Redaktion: Roberts, Laura Schmidt; Penner, Myron A.; Martens, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume performs a critical and vibrant reconstruction of Anabaptist identity and theological method, in the wake of the recent revelations of the depth of the sexual abuse perpetrated by the most influential Anabaptist theologian of the 20th century, John Howard Yoder. In an attempt to liberate Anabaptist theology and identity from the constricting vision appropriated and reformulated by Yoder, these essays refuse the determinative categories of the last half century supplied by and carried beyond Harold Bender's The Anabaptist Vision.

While still under the shadow of decades of trauma, a recontexualized conversation about Anabaptist theology and identity emerges in this volume that is ecumenically engaged, philosophically astute, psychologically attuned, and resolutely vulnerable. The volume offers a Trinitarian and Christological framework that holds together the importance of Scripture, tradition, and the lived experience of the Christian community, as the contributors examine a wide variety of issues such as Mennonite feminism, Anabaptist queer theology, and Mennonite theological methods. These essays interrogate the operations of power, violence, exclusion, and privilege in methodology in this changed context, offering self-critical constructive alternatives for articulating Anabaptist theology and identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567692757
• Artikelnr.: 58435837

Autorenporträt

Laura Schmidt Roberts is Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Fresno Pacific University, USA. Paul Martens is Associate Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics at Baylor University, USA. Myron Penner is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity Western University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Preface
Malinda Berry
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
USA
and Paul Martens
Baylor University
USA Preface
Myron A. Penner
Trinity Western University
Canada 1. Challenge and Opportunity: The Quest for Anabaptist Theology Today
Paul Martens
Baylor University
USA 2. Contours and Possibilities for an Anabaptist Theology
Karl Koop
Canadian Mennonite University
Canada 3. Refiguration
Configuration: Tradition
Text
and Narrative Identity
Laura Schmidt Roberts
Fresno Pacific University
USA 4. Mennonite Women Doing Theology: A Methodological Reflection on Twenty-Five Years of Conferences Carol Penner
Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo
Canada 5. Queering Anabaptist Theology: An Endeavor in Breaking Binaries as Hermeneutical Community
Stephanie Chandler Burns
Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo
Canada 6. On the Need for Critical-Contextual and Trauma-Informed Methods in Mennonite Theology
Melanie Kampen
Independent Scholar 7. The Ecumenical Vocation of Anabaptist Theology
Jeremy M. Bergen
Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo
Canada 8. Dialogue as Theological Method: Mennonite Missionaries
West African Churches
and Twenty-First-Century Anabaptist Identity
R. Bruce Yoder
Independent Scholar 9. Restlessness as Theological Method
Paul Doerksen
Canadian Mennonite University
Canada Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index