Research Catalog

Title

Exiles in the empire : Believers Church perspectives on politics: papers presented at the fifteenth Believers Church Conference, ..., September 2004 / hosted by Bridgewater College and Eastern Mennonite University ; edited by Nathan E. Yoder and Carol A. Scheppard.

Author

Conference on the Concept of the Believers' Church (15th : 2004 : Bridgewater College and Eastern Mennonite University)

Publication

Kitchener, Ont. : Pandora Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Yoder, Nathan E. (Nathan Emerson)
• Scheppard, Carol A.
• Yoder, Nathan E.

Description

266 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the believers church tradition, 1480-7432 ; 5

Uniform Title

Studies in the believers church tradition 5.

Subject

• Christianity and politics > United States > Congresses
• Free churches > United States > Congresses
• Imperialism > Congresses
• Christianisme et politique > États-Unis > Congrès
• Free Churches > États-Unis > Congrès
• Impérialisme > Congrès
• United States > Foreign relations > Philosophy > Congresses
• États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Philosophie > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Conference held at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va. and at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., in September 2004.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Nathan E. Yoder -- Covenant and exile: God's call to the space between / Carol A. Scheppard -- Jesus' confrontation with empire / Ted Grimsrud -- Critique and subjection in Anabaptist political witness / Gerald Biesecker-Mast -- Political ramifications of being God's people in a promised land / William H. Brackney -- Lincoln's dilemma: theological reflections on God and the 'righteous' nation / J. Michael Robertson -- Church of the Brethren office in Washington, D.C.: advocacy or listening post? / Donald F. Durnbaugh -- Mennonite witness, U.S. power, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict / Alain Epp Weaver -- Living parables / Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm -- Second order of business: prayer by the chaplain / Jim Hardenbrook -- Minority views and the wider world: Yoder and Plantinga on particularity / Myron A. Penner -- Living in the reign of God in the 'real world': getting beyond two-kingdom theology / J. Denny Weaver -- Seek the welfare of the empire / J. Daryl Byler -- From a totalitarian regime to democratic individualism: a Lithuanian perspective / Otonas Balciunas -- Chinese believers making choices consistent with God's choices / Wu Wei -- Reaction to U.S. power: the case of Southern African Christians / Mwizenge S. Tembo -- Napalm on mama's house: can we be silent? / Earl and Pat Hostetter Martin -- Giving Caesar his due: a personal journey to political involvement / Lloyd Harsch -- Polls apart: why believers might conscientiously abstain from voting / John D. Roth.

ISBN

• 1894710681 (pbk.)
• 9781894710688 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 71288157
• SCSB-10681928

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library