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A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity

Author: Chris K. Huebner

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  • Product Code: 9341
  • ISBN: 9780836193411
  • Other ISBN: 0836193415
  • Publisher:  Herald Press
  • Pages: 252
  • Binding Information: Paper
  • Publication Date: Nov 07, 2006
  • Series Number: 1
  • Series Title: Polyglossia: Radical Reformation Theologies

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A Precarious Peace poses a formidable challenge to mainstream accounts of Christian pacifism. In place of an approach which seeks effectively to implement and distribute a peace whose content is known in advance, Chris K. Huebner develops a radical understanding of peace that interrupts and puts into question many of our most deeply held convictions, including much of what is offered in the name of peace.

John Howard Yoder developed an understanding of "non-constantinianism" and a vision of Christian discipleship as involving a cultivation of a "readiness for radical reformation." This book explores the possibility of a specifically Mennonite theology, problems of knowledge, and questions of identity from a peaceable perspective of unpredictable gracious gifts given and received rather than a violent longing for possessions owned or territories protected.

This book presents an interpretation of Christian pacifism that turns upon the call to live out of control. Key conversation partners include Rowan Williams, John Milbank, Karl Barth, two Mennonite grandmothers, Canadian cinematographers, radical reformation, and most of all, John Howard Yoder.

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"A Precious Peace is intelligent, at times elegant, and unremitting in its depiction of the church as a counter-polis, gifted with witnesses and martyrs and a distinctive voice, but resistant to the frozen embrace of a theology captured by method and harnessed to rootless abstraction." —Paul J. Griffiths, University of Illinois at Chicago

"The precarious peace that Huebner describes is just that—Christian convictions are not possessions but a gift and they are received through vulnerability, not control. Don't miss the chapter on memory, identity, and Alzheimer's disease." —Gayle Gerber Koontz, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

"I believe that A Precarious Peace is a break through book. I simply do not see how the mainstream intellectual cultures, Christian and non-Christian, can ignore this book be relegating it, just as they have tried to relegate John Howard Yoder, to the Mennonite ghetto." —Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University, from the Foreword

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