Constructive Agents Under Duress: Alternatives to the Structural, Political, and Agential Inadequacies of Past Theologies of Nonviolent Peacebuilding Efforts
This essay explores the viability of theologies of nonviolent peacebuilding through reflection on constructive agents under duress. John Howard Yoder's messianic theology was once a default model of peacebuilding in Christian ethics, but he mixes eschatologies, with problematic results. This es...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2018]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 38, Issue: 2, Pages: 149-168 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBR Latin America KDG Free church NBF Christology NCD Political ethics |
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| Summary: | This essay explores the viability of theologies of nonviolent peacebuilding through reflection on constructive agents under duress. John Howard Yoder's messianic theology was once a default model of peacebuilding in Christian ethics, but he mixes eschatologies, with problematic results. This essay extends insights from participant observation in Colombia to suggest that if we relate distinct accounts of messianic and gradual eschatologies without mixing them, we articulate a relationship between church and state that is fruitful for theological peacebuilding. This relationship is best described as an interplay that allows for transformative displacement. |
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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.2018.0038 |