Alain Epp Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 5922814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alain Epp Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alain Epp |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Land, the Bible, and History
Remembering the Nakba in Hebrew
This essay examines the memory practices of the Zochrot Association, an Israeli organisation committed to, in its words, ‘remembering the Nakba in Hebrew’. Giving particular attention to Zochrot's actions at the destroyed village of Miskeh, the essay explores how Zochrot provokes memories in Hebrew about the Nakba, making present through embodied performances what had been rendered absent. These performances of memory, it is contended, might appr…
Unjust Lies, Just Wars? A Christian Pacifist Conversation with Augustine
Pacifism is routinely criticized as sectarian, incoherent, and preoccupied with moral purity at the expense of responsibility. The author contends that the pacifism of John Howard Yoder is vulnerable to none of these charges and defends this claim by establishing parallels between Yoder's analysis of killing and Augustine's analysis of lying. Although, within the terms of his own argument, Augustine's rejection of all lying as unjust is consisten…
After Politics
This article analyzes John Howard Yoder's vision of the church as a polis which, through its embodiment of particular practices, serves as an analogical anticipation of God's Kingdom, and thereby offers an alternative to utilitarian and agonal understandings of politics. After describing Yoder's ecclesiologically based vision of politics and examining prominent critiques of Yoder's ecclesiology, the theological framework for Yoder's understanding…
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After Politics
This article analyzes John Howard Yoder's vision of the church as a polis which, through its embodiment of particular practices, serves as an analogical anticipation of God's Kingdom, and thereby offers an alternative to utilitarian and agonal understandings of politics. After describing Yoder's ecclesiologically based vision of politics and examining prominent critiques of Yoder's ecclesiology, the theological framework for Yoder's understanding…
Unjust Lies, Just Wars? A Christian Pacifist Conversation with Augustine
Pacifism is routinely criticized as sectarian, incoherent, and preoccupied with moral purity at the expense of responsibility. The author contends that the pacifism of John Howard Yoder is vulnerable to none of these charges and defends this claim by establishing parallels between Yoder's analysis of killing and Augustine's analysis of lying. Although, within the terms of his own argument, Augustine's rejection of all lying as unjust is consisten…
The Land, the Bible, and History
Remembering the Nakba in Hebrew
This essay examines the memory practices of the Zochrot Association, an Israeli organisation committed to, in its words, ‘remembering the Nakba in Hebrew’. Giving particular attention to Zochrot's actions at the destroyed village of Miskeh, the essay explores how Zochrot provokes memories in Hebrew about the Nakba, making present through embodied performances what had been rendered absent. These performances of memory, it is contended, might appr…
Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work)