Exiles in the empire
Subtitle: Believers Church perspectives on politics: papers presented at the fifteenth Believers Church Conference, ..., September 2004
By: hosted by Bridgewater College and Eastern Mennonite University ; edited by Nathan E. Yoder and Carol A. Scheppard
Contributors: Yoder, Nathan E. (Nathan Emerson); Scheppard, Carol A.; Yoder, Nathan E.
Series: Studies in the believers church tradition -- 5
Publisher: Pandora Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Kitchener, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781894710688
Subjects: Christianity and politics; Congresses; Free churches; Imperialism; Foreign relations; Philosophy; Christianisme et politique; Congrès; Free Churches; Impérialisme; Relations extérieures; Philosophie
Notes: Conference held at Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Va. and at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Va., in September 2004.

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