Contents
THE WORK OF JESUS CHRIST
IN ANABAPTIST PERSPECTIVE
Essays in Honor of J. Denny Weaver


Foreword by Myron S. Augsburger 10
Introduction by Gerald J. Mast 13

PART 1: THE WORK OF JESUS IN THE LIFE
AND THEOLOGY OF J. DENNY WEAVER

1 J. Denny Weaver: A Biased Appreciation · 21
Alain Epp Weaver

2 A Fresh Riff on J. Denny Weaver’s A-Theology or Prolegomenon to a Stewardship Rhetoric · 29
Susan L. Biesecker and Jason R. Moyer

PART 2: THE WORK OF JESUS IN THE SCRIPTURES

3 Historical Reconstruction and Theological Construction in
Tension in the Work of J. Denny Weaver · 63
Ray F. Person, Jr.

4 The Violence of God and the Hermeneutics of Paul · 74
Christopher D. Marshall

5 Imitation as Participation: Discipleship in Paul’s Letters · 106
Laura L. Brenneman

6 Atonement and Sacrifice in the Book of Revelation · 124
Loren L. Johns

PART 3: THE WORK OF JESUS IN ANABAPTISM

7 Retrieving Historical Anabaptist Christology for Contemporary Anabaptist Theology · 149
Thomas N. Finger

8 Jesus’ Flesh and the Faithful Church in the Theological Rhetoric of Menno Simons · 173
Gerald J. Mast

9 The Canons of Anabaptism: Which Anabaptism? Whose Canon? · 191
Ray Gingerich

PART 4: THE WORK OF JESUS ON THE CROSS

10 Atonment: Being Remembered · 225
Harry J. Huebner

11 “Who Durst Defy the Omnipotent to Arms?” The Nonviolent Atonement and a Non-Competitive Doctrine of God · 246
J. Alexander Sider

12 Needles Not Nails: Marginal Methodologies and Mennonite Theology · 263
Malinda Elizabeth Berry

13 Notes for a Nonviolent Eschatology · 282
Jane Thorley Roeschley

PART 5: THE WORK OF JESUS IN THE CHURCH

14 “The Tongue is a Fire”: On the Dangerous Missiological Vocation of the Theologian · 309
Alain Epp Weaver

15 An Anabaptist Theology of Youth Ministry · 323
Randy Keeler

16 Taking Up Our Harps, Hanging Up Our Harps: Worship in the “Already, But Not Yet” Church · 337
Janeen Bertsche Johnson

PART 6: THE WORK OF JESUS IN THE WORLD

17 The Gift of Creation and Interpretation · 345
Trevor George Hunsberger Bechtel

18 “Truth Did Not Come Into the World Naked”: Some Images, Some Stories, and an Immodest Proposal · 371
Jeff Gundy

19 Christus Victor and the Preoccupation With the Concrete in the Work of Christian Peacemaker Teams · 386
Kathleen Kern

Bibliography of the Published Works of J. Denny Weaver 401
Index 417
The Contributors 427

 

 
 

 

             
             
             
           

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04/05/08