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The Contributors
Anabaptists and
Postmodernity
Peter Blum is
Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at
Hillsdale College. He has published and lectured in the
areas of philosophy, ethics, social theory, and
Amish-Mennonite culture.
J. Lawrence Burkholder
is President Emeritus of Goshen College, where he was
president1972-1984. A respected church leader and
scholar, he has worked at the forefront of numerous
movements for human relief and civil rights, and has
lectured and published in the areas of Christian theology
and social ethics. The Limits of Perfection
(Pandora Press, 1993) contains an extended
autobiographical sketch by Burkholder and numerous
responses to his The Problem of Social Responsibility
From the Perspective of the Mennonite Church
(Institute of Mennonite Studies, 1989).
J. R. Burkholder is
Professor Emeritus of Religion at Goshen College. He has
served the church as pastor, missionary, scholar, and
teacher. Among his works is a book entitled Children
of Peace (Brethren Press, 1982, coauthored with John
Bender) and the well-known festschrift for Guy
Hershberger, Kingdom, Cross, and Community (Herald
Press, 1976, co-edited with Cal Redekop).
Leo Driedger is
Professor of Sociology at the University of Manitoba,
where he specializes in ethnic relations. He has
published numerous books in Anabaptist-Mennonite studies,
including The Mennonite Mosaic (Herald Press,
1991, co-authored with J. Howard Kauffman) and Mennonite
Peacemaking (Herald Press, 1994, co-authored with
Donald Kraybill). Among his many significant
contributions to the Mennonite churches have been his
roles as executive secretary of the General Conference
Mennonite Church Peace and Social Concerns Committee
(1957-1961) and chair of Mennonite Central Committee
Manitoba.
Tom Finger has most recently
been Professor of Systematic and Spiritual Theology at
Eastern Mennonite University and has taught in many other
settings as well. His theological writing includes Systematic
Theology: An Eschatological Approach (vols. 1 and 2;
Herald Press, 1985, 1989) and Self, Earth, and Society
(InterVarsity Press, 1997). He is an ordained minister in
the Mennonite Church.
Jeff Gundy is
Professor of English at Bluffton College. He is a widely
published and accomplished poet whose recent book
entitled A Community of Memory (University of
Illinois Press, 1995) is a creative nonfiction account of
his Gundy ancestors.
Stanley Hauerwas is
the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at
the Divinity School of Duke University and will be the
Gifford Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in
Scotland in 2000-2001. A prolific author, his most recent
works include Wilderness Wanderings (Westview
Press, 1997) and Sanctify Them in Thy Truth
(Abingdon Press, 1999).
Thomas Heilke is
Associate Professor in the Department of Political
Science at the University of Kansas. He is most recently
author of Nietzsche’s Tragic Regime: Culture,
Aesthetics, and Political Education (Northern
Illinois University Press, 1998) and of Eric Voegelin:
In Quest of Reality (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999),
as well as several essays on Anabaptist political thought
and other topics.
Scott Holland is
Associate Professor of Peace and Cross Cultural
Theologies, Bethany Theological Seminary. He has pastored
congregations in the Mennonite Church and the Church of
the Brethren. He is author of many essays on Anabaptist
public theology and aesthetics, co-editor of The
Limits of Perfection (Pandora Press, 1993), and
contributing editor for Cross Currents: The Journal of
the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life.
Chris Huebner is a
graduate student in Theological Ethics at Duke University
and co-editor of the recent festschrift for John Howard
Yoder entitled The Wisdom of the Cross (W.B.
Eerdmans, 1999).
Douglas Jacobsen is
Professor of Church History and Theology at Messiah
College. He has lectured and written on numerous aspects
of American evangelical and Protestant identity. He is
the author of An Unprov’d Experiment: Religious
Pluralism in Colonial New Jersey (Carlson Pub., 1991)
and co-editor of Re-Forming the Center: American
Protestantism, 1900 to the Present (W. B. Eerdmans,
1998).
Michael A. King is pastor of Spring Mount (Pa.) Mennonite
Church as well as publisher, Pandora Press U.S., and
editor, InterLink Communication Services He is the author
of numerous articles and has had published two books, Preaching
about Life in a Threatening World (co-authored with
Ronald J. Sider, Westminster, 1987) and Trackless
Wastes and Stars to Steer By: Christian Identity in a
Homeless Age (Herald Press, 1990).
Michael A. King is
pastor of Spring Mount (Pa.) Mennonite Church as well as
publisher, Pandora Press U.S., and editor, InterLink
Communication Services. He is the author of numerous
articles and has had published two books, Preaching
about Life in a Threatening World (co-authored with
Ronald J. Sider, Westminster, 1987) and Trackless
Wastes and Stars to Stee By: Christian Identity in a
Homeless Age (Herald Press, 1990).
Marlene Kropf is Assistant
Professor of Spiritual Formation and Worship at
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Minister of
Worship and Spirituality for Mennonite Board of
Congregational Ministries. She is co-author of Praying
With the Anabaptists (Faith & Life Press, 1994).
John D. Roth is Professor of History at Goshen College
where he also is director of the Mennonite Historical
Library and editor of The Mennonite Quarterly Review.
He has written many articles on Anabaptist-Mennonite
related themes and is editor and translator of Letters
of the Amish Division (Mennonite Historical Society,
1993).
John D. Roth is
Professor of History at Goshen College where he also is
director of the Mennonite Historical Library and editor
of The Mennonite Quarterly Review. He has
written many articles on Anabaptist-Mennonite related
themes and is editor and translator of Letters of the
Amish Division (Mennonite Historical Society, 1993).
Gerald W. Schlabach is
Associate Professor of History and Religion at Bluffton
College. He worked as a writer and program adminstrator
for Mennonite Central Committee during the 1980s and is
the author of numerous essays and books, including And
Who Is My Neighbor? (Herald Press, 1990) and the
forthcoming title, For the Joy Set Before Us:
Augustine and Self-Denying Love (Univ. of Notre Dame
Press).
John Stahl-Wert is
director of the Studies Institute at the Pittsburgh
Leadership Foundation and executive director of the
Pittsburgh Urban Leadership Service Experience (PULSE), a
voluntary service program for Mennonite college
graduates. An ordained minister in the Mennonite Church,
he has co-authored the book Welcoming New Christians
(Faith and Life Press and Mennonite Publishing House,
1995) and many articles in the areas of narrative
theology and Christian hospitality.
Hildi Froese Tiessen
is Associate Professor of English and Peace and Conflict
Studies at Conrad Grebel College, the University of
Waterloo. She has edited five volumes of work by and
about Mennonite writers/writing, including Liars and
Rascals: Mennonite Short Stories (University of
Waterloo Press, 1989).
Paul Tiessen is
Professor in the English Department at Wilfred Laurier
University. He has edited and co-edited numerous books on
literature, film, art, and photography, most recently, A
Darkness That Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the
Twentieth Century (University of Toronto Press,
1999).
J. Denny Weaver is
Professor of Religion at Bluffton College and editor of
the C. Henry Smith Series. He has published widely in the
field of Anabaptist-Mennonite historical theology,
including the books Becoming Anabaptist (Herald
Press, 1987), Keeping Salvation Ethical (Herald
Press, 1997), and the forthcoming Anabaptist Theology
in Face of Postmodernity: A Proposal for the Third
Millennium (Pandora Press U.S., 2000).
Anabaptists and
Postmodernity orders:
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