The New Yoder

Peter Dula, Chris K. Huebner, Dula, Huebner

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781608990443, 9781498212298
• eBook ISBN: 9781630874360
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Judaism as a Free Church: Footnotes to John Howard Yoder’s The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited
• Chapter 2: The Christian Witness in the Earthly City:John Howard Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor
• Chapter 3: John Howard Yoder’s Systematic Defense of Christian Pacifism
• Chapter 4: The War of the Lamb: Postmodernity and Yoder’s Eschatological Genealogy of Morals
• Chapter 5: Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of an Errant Postmodernist
• Chapter 6: Yoder’s Patience and/with Derrida’s Différance
• Chapter 7: Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ:Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed
• Chapter 8: On Exile: Yoder, Said, and a Politics of Land and Return
• Chapter 9: Memory in the Politics of Forgiveness
• Chapter 10: Traumatic Violence and Christian Peacemaking
• Chapter 11: The Wild Patience of John Howard Yoder: “Outsiders” and the “Otherness of the Church”
• Chapter 12: Laughing With the World:Possibilities of Hope in John Howard Yoder and Jeffrey Stout
• Chapter 13: Epistemological Violence, Christianity, and the Secular
• Chapter 14: Fracturing Evangelical Recognitions of Christ: Inheriting the Radical Democracy of John Howard Yoder with the Penumbral Vision of Rowan Williams1
• Chapter 15: Communio Missionis:Certeau, Yoder, and the Missionary Space of the Church1
• Contributors