A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology

by John Howard Yoder, Christian E. Early (Editor), Ted Grimsrud (Editor)

Overview

In A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology, editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather the scattered writings of Yoder on the theme of the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing. In them, they find the beginnings of a pacifist theology of knowledge that rejects strategies of empire while at the same time avoids a self-defeating relativism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621890805
Publisher:	Cascade Books
Publication date:	06/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	170
File size:	244 KB

About the Author

Christian E. Early is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Eastern Mennonite University.

Ted G. Grimsrud is Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, Eastern Mennonite University.
John Howard Yoder taught at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and later became a professor of theology and ethics at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of The Politics of Jesus (1972), The Priestly Kingdom (1984), For the Nations (1997), and several other books.
Christian E. Early is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He is coeditor with Ted Grimsrud of A Pacifist Way of Knowing (Cascade Books, 2010).
Ted Grimsrud is the Professor of Theology and Peace Studies at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Among his books are Instead of Atonement: The Bible's Salvation Story and Our Hope for Wholeness (2013), Compassionate Eschatology: The Future as Friend (2011), A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Pacifist Epistemology (2010), and Theology as if Jesus Matters (2009).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgments ix

Prologue Christian Pacifism in Brief Ted Grimsrud Christian E. Early 1

1 "But We Do See Jesus": The Particularity of Incarnation and the Universality of Truth 22

2 On Not Being Ashamed of the Gospel: Particularity, Pluralism, and Validation 40

3 Why Ecclesiology is Social Ethics: Gospel Ethics Versus the Wider Wisdom 58

4 Walk and Word: The Alternatives to Methodologism 81

5 Meaning after Babble: With Jeffrey Stout beyond Relativism 98

6 "Patience" as Method in Moral Reasoning: Is an Ethic of Discipleship "Absolute"? 113

Epilogue John Howard Yoder on Diversity as a Gift: Epistemology and Eschatology Christian E. Early Ted Grimsrud 133

Bibliography 155

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Whether in Yoder's approach to Christology within the first portion of this collection or in other important areas, epistemology is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the legacy of John Howard Yoder. Bringing these essays on Yoder's way of knowing together in one volume should go far toward correcting these misperceptions."
—J. Denny Weaver author of The Nonviolent Atonement

"I am not a pacifist, but reading John Howard Yoder the past several years, I am moving in his direction. Meanwhile, this remarkable collection of Yoder's writings offers wisdoms, bearing many other names, that enrich me in mind and spirit right now. There are wisdoms about the truth universal that resides in the particularity of my scriptural tradition, about the covenantal context in which ethics may be received, about why serving the good begins only where we are and why we can talk about it only from where we are, and about why, oh why, we have to be patient."
—Peter Ochs editor of The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity

Editorial Reviews

"Whether in Yoder's approach to Christology within the first portion of this collection or in other important areas, epistemology is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the legacy of John Howard Yoder. Bringing these essays on Yoder's way of knowing together in one volume should go far toward correcting these misperceptions."
—J. Denny Weaver author of The Nonviolent Atonement

"I am not a pacifist, but reading John Howard Yoder the past several years, I am moving in his direction. Meanwhile, this remarkable collection of Yoder's writings offers wisdoms, bearing many other names, that enrich me in mind and spirit right now. There are wisdoms about the truth universal that resides in the particularity of my scriptural tradition, about the covenantal context in which ethics may be received, about why serving the good begins only where we are and why we can talk about it only from where we are, and about why, oh why, we have to be patient."
—Peter Ochs editor of The Return to Scripture in Judaism and Christianity

From the Publisher