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• W294471676 abstract "Abstract: How should Christians theologically conceptualize the reception of truth about God from non-Christians? I attempt to answer this question by deploying Karl Barth's conception of parables of the kingdom. With particular reference to religious plurahty, I show how John Howard Yoder follows closely not only Barth's Christocentrism but also Barth's insistence on the presence of God's Word beyond the walls of the (extra muros ecclesiae). Secular parables of the allow for the construction of double-edged public theology: public in the sense of offering missionary witness to the non-Christian world as well as in the sense of being open to receiving witness to God's Word from non-Christians. ********** How should Christians theologically conceptualize the reception of truth about God from non-Christians? The question--basic to Christian theology of culture, relevant to understanding of alliances with non-Christian political movements, and especially significant for Christian theology of religions-is not one to which Mennonites have given much thought. This question of how the church can open itself to words of truth spoken by non-Christians while continuing to proclaim Jesus Christ as the one true Word of God is raised most pointedly with regard to inter-religious matters, but it also pertains to the relationship between Christianity and various cultural spheres, the church and non-Christian political movements, etc. As Mennonites have become increasingly involved in secular culture, coalition politics and interfaith encounter, developing answer to this question takes on practical as well as theoretical urgency. At the risk of oversimplification, I suggest that contemporary Mennonite theological thought has adopted two approaches toward non-Christian spheres generally and other religions specifically. One approach is that of the pluralist, most powerfully represented in Mennonite theology by Gordon Kaufman. (1) The denies the exclusivity of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ in order to defend and explain the presence of true words about God which do not bear the name of Jesus Christ. That the option involves devaluation and relativization of traditional Christian claims about Jesus Christ has made it problematic for most Christians, including Mennonites. The other approach to non-Christian spheres and religions emphasizes the role of the church as missionary minority that witnesses to God's through the shape of its corporate life. This theological tradition, best represented in the voluminous writings of John Howard Yoder, stresses the particularity of God's revelation in Jesus. Yoder's Christocentrism has led some to imagine that Yoder can understand the non-Christian world only as an object of theological description and rather than as a rich source for imaginative and revisionary theological thought and writing. (2) That Yoder has focused much more on the church's mission to the world rather than on looking for signs of God's presence in non-Christian spheres is clear. That does not mean, however, that his writings do not contain resources for positive engagement with, say, secular art or persons of other faiths. I shall contend that the writings of Yoder's theological mentor Karl Barth contain resources for answering our initial question of how theologically to understand the reception of true words about God from non-Christian sources. Barth's conception of parables of the kingdom allows him to uphold exclusivist, constitutive Christology while also (1) allowing for non-Christian voices to critique church practice and extend the church's knowledge and (2) providing theological justification for cooperative action across confessional boundaries. My argument will proceed as follows: after describing and critiquing the approach of pluralist theologians to religious plurality, I shall engage in close reading of Barthian texts that address the question of other religions, observing in the process how Yoder generally follows Barth's arguments. …" @default.
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• W294471676 title "Parables of the Kingdom and Religious Plurality: With Barth and Yoder toward a Nonresistant Public Theology" @default.
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