Recovering from the Anabaptist Vision

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.

Acest volum efectueaza o reconstructie critica si vibranta a identitatii anabaptiste si a metodei teologice, in urma dezvaluirilor recente ale profunzimii abuzurilor sexuale comise de cel mai influent teolog anabaptist al secolului XX, John Howard Yoder. In incercarea de a elibera teologia si identitatea anabaptista de viziunea constrangatoare insusita si reformulata de Yoder, aceste eseuri refuza categoriile determinante din ultima jumatate de secol furnizate si duse dincolo de viziunea anabaptista a lui Harold Bender. , o conversatie recontexualizata despre teologia si identitatea anabaptista apare in acest volum care este angajat ecumenic, intelept din punct de vedere filosofic, acordat din punct de vedere psihologic si hotarat vulnerabil.