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 Benders 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.

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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. * Religious Studies Review *
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. * Journal of Mennonite Studies *

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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.