Is a Messianic Political Ethic Possible? Recent Work by and About John Howard Yoder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760383 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Travis Kroeker (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 141-174 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0384-9694.2005.00186.x |
| OpenAlex | W2129171666 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
In his landmark monograph, The Politics of Jesus, John Howard Yoder challenged mainstream Christian social ethics by arguing that the New Testament account of Jesus's founding of a messianic community entails a normative politics, not only for early Christianity but for the contemporary church. This challenge is further elaborated in several important posthumous publications, especially Preface to Theology, in which Yoder examines the development of early Christology with attention to its political and ethical implications, and The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited, Yoder's proposal for a renewed Jewish–Christian dialogue around the moral meaning of messianism. This article interprets these writings with reference to a range of critical scholarship on and about Yoder, Yoder and Augustine, and Jewish and Christian messianism, paying particular attention to questions of political ethics
Biblical studies · Christology · Early Christianity · Gnosticism · Judaism · Messianism · New Testament · Political ethics · Political science · Political theology · Politics · Schism · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |