Contents
Anabaptists and
Postmodernity
The C.
Henry Smith Series 11
Foreword by J. Denny Weaver 12
Editors’ Preface, by Gerald and
Susan Biesecker-Mast 15
Introduction:
Anabaptists and Postmodernity: A Risky/Risqué
Proposition, by Susan Biesecker-Mast 19
Part I: Radical Christianity
and Postmodern Theory
Chapter 1 The Christian Difference: or Surviving
Postmodernism
Stanley Hauerwas • 41
Chapter 2 Foucault, Genealogy,
Anabaptism: Confessions of An Errant Postmodernist
Peter C. Blum • 60
Chapter 3 “Universal Truths”:
Should Anabaptist Theologians Seek to Articulate Them?
Thomas Finger • 75
Part II: Anabaptist
Storytelling and Historical Memory
Chapter 4 Valuing the Story of Power and Telling a
Grander One: Anabaptism and Power Postmodernism in
Mutually Enlarging Conversation
Michael A. King • 91
Chapter 5 Postmodern Practice and
Parody: Dallas Wiebe’s Our Asian Journey
Paul Tiessen • 106
Chapter 6 Context, Conflict, and
Community: South German Mennonites at the Threshold of
Modernity, 1750-1850
John D. Roth • 120
Part III: Marginal Voices and
Church Polity
Chapter 7 When Bloch Pointed to the Cages Outside the
Cathedral
Scott Holland • 147
Chapter 8 Mennonite Literature and
Postmodernism: Writing the ‘In-Between’ Space
Hildi Froese Tiessen • 160
Chapter 9 (In)visible Cities, (F)acts
of Power, (Hmm)ility, Fathers and (M)others: Anabaptism,
Postmodernity, and Mennonite Writing
Jeff Gundy • 175
Part IV: Practical Discipleship
and Liturgical Renewal
Chapter 10 Recovering the Anabaptist Body (To Separate It
for the World)
Gerald Biesecker-Mast • 193
Chapter 11 Leitourgia Beyond Altar and
Sacrifice: How Then Shall We Worship/Serve God?
John Richard Burkholder • 214
Chapter 12 The Lord is Still My
Shepherd When I Sing: Experiencing God in Postmodern
Anabaptist Worship
Marlene Kropf • 233
Part V: Religious Particularity
and Social Identity
Chapter 13 Nicaea, Womanist Theology, and Anabaptist
Particularity
J. Denny Weaver • 251
Chapter 14 Anabaptist Autonomy,
Evangelical Engulfment, and Mennonite Mestizaje: Three
Postmodern Options
Douglas Jacobsen • 280
Chapter 15 The Vow of Stability: A
Premodern Way through a Hypermodern World
Gerald W. Schlabach • 301
Part VI: Peace Witness and
Political Commitment
Chapter 16 Sticks and Stones, Words and Bones: The Body
of Christ and the Gospel of Peace
John Stahl-Wert • 327
Chapter 17 Christian Pacifism as
Friendship with God: MacIntyre, Mennonites, and the
Genealogical Tradition
Chris K. Huebner • 339
Chapter 18 Anabaptists and
Postmodernity: Two Visions of Hope
Thomas Heilke • 356
Part VII: Cultural Captivity
and Christian Freedom
Chapter 19 Postmodern Experiments: Blips or New
Revolution?
Leo Driedger • 285
Chapter 20 Following Christ in a Postmodern World
J. Lawrence Burkholder • 406
Select Bibliography 415
Index 429
The
Contributors 437
The Editors 440
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