Doing Justice to the Complex Legacy of John Howard Yoder: Restorative Justice Resources in Witness and Feminist Ethics
John Howard Yoder's reclamation of Christ's law of love as normative for Christian ethics makes important contributions to the field, but this pacifist legacy is tainted by his sexual violence against women. Prominent witness and feminist ethicists either defend or condemn Yoder, refle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2015]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-139 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDG Free church NCD Political ethics NCF Sexual ethics |
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| Summary: | John Howard Yoder's reclamation of Christ's law of love as normative for Christian ethics makes important contributions to the field, but this pacifist legacy is tainted by his sexual violence against women. Prominent witness and feminist ethicists either defend or condemn Yoder, reflecting retributive approaches to wrongdoing. Restorative justice modelswith their emphasis on truth-telling, particularity, and communal responses to violenceilluminate common ground between these often antagonistic groups of ethicists, whose specific resources are needed to do justice to Yoder's legacy. Yoder claimed that Christian identity itself calls for feminist engagement, but he failed to fully develop this claim in his theology or embody it in his life. By collaborating in such a truly feminist pacifist politics, witness and feminist ethicists not only strengthen their own internal projects with respect to the church's mission and the promotion of women's flourishing but also more effectively address sexual violence. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2015.0037 |