Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method
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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.
Drawing on the expertise of emerging and established scholars in the Anabaptist tradition, this book offers a critical yet vibrant reconstruction of Anabaptist identity and theological method that is ecumenically engaged, philosophically astute, psychologically attuned, and resolutely vulnerable.
Offers cutting-edge research into the state of Anabaptist theology
Provides provocative proposals for new directions for future work in Anabaptist theology
The volume's uniqueness lies in consciously framing questions of Anabaptist theological methods and practices in the wake of the fall of the tradition's most influential voice for the past half century
Brings together leading Anabaptist voices from USA, Canada and Africa
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
This is an important, provocative, and edifying book for pastors and scholars in Anabaptist communities because it shows how individuals in many settings can find fruitful theological resources in Anabaptist thought.
Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision collects fascinating and important new work in and around the Anabaptist Mennonite tradition, and it moves the conversation on Mennonite identity forward in several significant ways.
- Title: Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision: New Essays in Anabaptist Identity and Theological Method
- Authors: Laura Schmidt Roberts, Paul Martens, Myron A. Penner
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567692757, 9780567692733, 0567692736, 0567692752
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567692757
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T04:13:24Z
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.