Anabaptist ReMix; Varieties of Cultural Engagement in North America

ISBN-13: 9781433187926 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Lauren Friesen; Dennis Koehn

Opis

The present volume on Anabaptist ReMix: The Varieties of Cultural Engagement is a case study of one tradition-Anabaptists and Mennonites-and fragments of its transformation in the modern and post-modern era.

Recenzje

"Anabaptist ReMix offers an insightful case study into the impact of a particular religious community as it organically adapts and responds to the complexities of history, location, social evolution, technology, the broader society. Friesen and Koehn have brought together an eclectic set of perspectives that together present the Anabaptist tradition not only as a religious community, but rather through the lens of a social movement. This work is critically important at a time when social movements are reshaping our society. A global pandemic, reckoning with historical legacies of racism and inequality, and a deepening awareness of our impact on the environment and one another are reshaping our daily life. Anabaptist ReMix offers insight into how a movement, developed in a similar time of social conflict, carries a set of commitments, practices, and values across time and space. The editors challenge the narrow view of the Anabaptist tradition as insular and isolated, and instead assemble a group of scholars, artists, and practitioners that demonstrate the rich diversity and contribution of a faith community. How might movements that are taking shape today in this moment of crisis similarly evolve and carry out a vision that is both faithful to its commitments but adaptive throughout generations?" -David Vasquez-Levy, President, Pacific School of Religion

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations - Keith Ratzlaff: Three Angels - Preface - Dennis R. Koehn: Introduction - Dennis R. Koehn: New Perspectives on Human Nature and Images of the Divine - Maxwell Kennel: Secular Mennonite Social Critique: Pluralism, Interdisciplinarity, and Mennonite Studies - Duane Friesen: The Convergence of Pacifism and Just War - Doug Hostetter: Interfaith Paths to Peace - James Samuel Logan: The Ground and Educational Ministry of Ethics: A (Darkly Hued) Anabaptist Perspective - Lauren Friesen: "Be Just, and Fear Not": Theater as Restorative Justice - Vincent Harding: The Beggars Are Rising, Where Are the Saints? - Lawrence Hart: Connections Past, Present, and Future - Bryan Rafael Falcón: Hexadecaroon - Katie Graber: Liberating Anabaptist Music - Cameron Altaras: Voice of the Residue: The Reckoning of Intergenerational Female Wounding - Ruth E. Krall: Healing the Wounds of a Violated World - Lorin Peters: I Will Kill Him First! - Darla Schumm: Musings from a Blind Mennonite Misfit: When Disability Theory and Anabaptist Identity Intersect - S. Roy Kaufman: Anabaptism and Its Agrarian Heritage - Charlene Gingerich: Beauty Happens - Daniel Shank Cruz: Mennonite Literature's Queer Decolonial Anabaptist Vision - Al Schnupp: Us and Them - Jeff Gundy: Emblems of the Times - Sofia Samatar: The Centaur's Recipe - Rachel Epp Buller: Learning from our Ancestors: Listening to the Patterns in our Hands - Douglas Witmer: Neighbor : Who - Diana Zimmerman: Slowly Like Snow - Lisa Schirch: Applying a Mennonite Theology of Peacebuilding to Mennonite Institutions - Julia Reimer: Negotiating the Blade: A Dramatic Reverie on Faith, Institutions, and Theater - Clayton Funk: Walking a Tightrope Across the University: Following My Ethical Compass and Hacking Higher Education - Rudi Kauffman: Ethics, Faith, and Health Care - J. Alexander Sider: Among the Pains: Christianity, Disability, Healing - David E. Ortman: The Church on the Edge of Forever - List of Contributors - Index.

O autorze

Lauren Friesen is the David M. French Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD (with honors) from the Graduate Theological Union. His recent publications include editing Mennonite Ethics: from Isolation to Engagement by J. Lawrence Burkholder and autobiographical essays Prairie Lands, Private Landscapes. Friesen was awarded the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence in University/College Theatre and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Pacific School of Religion.

Dennis R. Koehn exemplifies a life of activism, scholarship, and professional impact. He did time in a federal prison for draft resistance, completed undergraduate work with honors, and went to Harvard on a Rockefeller Brothers Theological Fellowship. Koehn, as a management consultant, was known for being "particularly suited to joining business and management skills with theology and the needs of church organizations." Koehn received a PhD from Chicago Theological Seminary with a dissertation on religion and war.