Review Essay: Luther Blissett, Q, trans. Shaun Whiteside (London: William Heinemann, 2003) JACOB JOST* Beginning in the mid-1990s, a group of conceptual artists pulled a series of sophisticated stunts and pranks across Italy, creating fictional news stories and inventing from whole cloth an English cyclist, Harry Kipper, who supposedly…
BOOK REVIEWS Dutch Mennonite Mission in Indonesia: Historical Essays. By Alle Hoekema. Elkhart, Ind.: Institute of Mennonite Studies. 2001. Pp. 148. $15. Six essays with an introduction compose this book inviting English-speakers into the story of the Dutch Mennonite mission launched 155 years ago. A seminary professor and former…
The Church as Sign or Sacrament: Trinitarian Ecclesiology, Pilgram Marpeck, Vatican II and John Milbank NEAL BLOUGH* Abstract: This essay compares Marpeck’s incarnational and trinitarian Christology with developments in Catholic sacramental theology related to Vatican II, arguing that notions such as the “humanity of Christ” or the “unglorified body of…
IN THIS ISSUE Few figures have generated more scholarly attention among historians of Anabaptism in the past twenty years than the Swiss/South German theologian and civil engineer Pilgram Marpeck (c1495-1556). Although he never established an enduring movement that bore his name, Marpeck’s rich legacy of theological writings helped to shape…
IN THIS ISSUE Midway through the twentieth century the Mennonite Church in North America faced a critical moment in its history. World War II–‘the ‘Good War”had mobilized the patriotic zeal of the entire nation, forcing Mennonites to articulate anew their understandings of service, nonresistance and…
Contents of Volume LXXVI July 2003 Number Three In This Issue John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic Mark Thiessen Nation John Howard Yoder’s Role in “The Lordship of Christ Over Church and State” Conferences Donald…
Yoder’s Jesus and Economics: The Economics of Jesus or the Economics of Luke’ JOHN ZIMMERMAN* Abstract: In The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder based his interpretation of Jesus’ economic views on a non-critical use of the Gospel of Luke. An analyses of Luke’s redactional tendencies on issues of economics-including…
Theological Foundations for an Ethics of Nonviolence: Was Yoder’s God a Warrior’ RAY C. GINGERICH* Abstract: Yoder placed the nonviolent earthly Jesus at the center of his theological enterprise, offering a sharp critique of Constantinianism and constructing an ethics of nonviolent discipleship. But his legacy leaves us with a warrior…
The Legacy of an Inadequate Christology: Yoder’s Critique of Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture CRAIG A. CARTER* Abstract: H. Richard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture has exerted enormous influence on how we conceptualize the relationship between Christianity and culture. It has persuaded many individuals from pietistic, Anabaptist and fundamentalist backgrounds…
John Howard Yoder: Mennonite, Evangelical, Catholic MARK THIESSEN NATION* Abstract: During the last half of the twentieth century John Howard Yoder emerged as one of the most influential theologians and ethicists of his generation. In addition to his formidable intellectual gifts, Yoder’s prominence derived in part from his ability to…
