Activist impulse
Subtitle: essays on the intersection of evangelicalism and Anabaptism
By: edited by Jared S. Burkholde and David C. Cramer ; with a foreword by George M. Marsden and an afterword by Sara Wenger Shenk
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781608993505
Subjects: Doctrines; Evangelicalism; Modernist-fundamentalist controversy; Anabaptists
Description: Anabaptists have often felt suspicious of American evangelicalism, and in turn evangelicals have found various reasons to dismiss the Anabaptist witness. Yet at various points in the past as well as the present, evangelicals and Anabaptists have found ample reason for conversation and much to appreciate about each other. The Activist Impulse represents the first book-length examination of the complex relationship between evangelicalism and Anabaptism in the past thirty years. It brings established experts and new voices together in an effort to explore the historical and theological intersection of these two rich traditions. Each of the essays provides fresh insight on at least one characteristic that both evangelicals and Anabaptists share--an impulse to engage society through the pursuit of active Christian witness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intersecting stories: Historical reflection on the nexus of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Activist impulses across time: North American Evangelicalism and Anabaptism as conversation partners / Steven M. Nolt; title: Anabaptism and Evangelicalism revisted: healing a contentious relationship? / John D. Roth; title: Intellectual hospitality as historical method: moving beyond the activist impulse / John Fea; title: Intersecting challenges: Anabaptism and the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy. Fundamentalists, modernists, and a Mennonite "Third Way": reexamining the career of Bishop Daniel Kauffman / Benjamin Wetzel; title: "I submit": Daniel Kauffman and the legacy of a yielded life / Nathan E. Yoder; title: A cord of many strands: reexamining Grace Brethren identity and the fundamentalism of Alva J. McClain / M.M. Norris; title: Misfits and fundamentalists: the question of Evangelicalism and defection among Lancaster and Franconia Mennonites / Jared S. Burkholder; title: Intersecting concerns: Anabaptist and Evangelical public witness. Practicing peace, embracing evangelism: missional tensions in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church / Matthew Eaton and Joel Boehner; title: "Pool tables are the devil's playground: forging an Evangelico-Anabautista identity in South Texas / Felipe Hinojosa; title: Re-baptizing Evangelicalism: American Anabaptists and the 1970s Evangelical Left / David R. Swartz; title: The Evangelical-Anabaptist spectrum: the political theologies of Francis Schaeffer, John Howard Yoder, and Jim Wallis / Geoffrey C. Bowden; title: Ihtersecting trajectories: toward an Evangelical Anbaptist theology and praxis. "Go tell that fox!": Evangelical Anabaptist reflections on religion and the public square / Timothy Paul Erdel; title: Beyond Anselm: a Biblical and Evangelical case for nonviolent atonement / Kirk R. MacGregor; title: Evangelical hermeneutics, Anabaptist ethics: John Howard Yoder, the Solas, and the question of war / David C. Cramer.