Retail Price: $20.00
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ISBN 10: 1-59752-483-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-59752-483-4
Pages: 168
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 02/15/2006
Division: Cascade Books
Category: Theology
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The Politics of Discipleship and Discipleship in Politics
Jurgen Moltmann Lectures in Dialogue with Mennonite Scholars
By Dr. Jürgen Moltmann
Edited by Willard M. Swartley
'The Politics of Discipleship and Discipleship in Politics' is a work of dialog and cooperation at every level. At the core of this volume are lectures by Jürgen Moltmann, originally delivered at two Mennonite seminaries at the height of the Cold War. Theologians at those seminaries then responded to each of Moltmann's lectures, and those are included as well. Added to this collection are: a new essay by Moltmann on peacemaking and dragonslaying, a new foreword by Willard Swartley, and a new preface by Moltmann. In this post-9/11 world, this dialog has fresh relevance.
Author - Dr. Jürgen Moltmann
Editor - Willard M. Swartley
The first step to peace is to accept the difference of the other as gift from God. For who can will to annihilate what is received as gift? The penetrating essays in this book are a wonderful testimony of theological work born out of honest engagement, precisely because each author accepts that truth is not a possession and hence its custody is shared, even with those once perceived as adversary. If there is such a thing as pedagogical non-violence this book is a fine exhibit.
—Harry J. Huebner
Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Canada
While the immediate threat of nuclear disaster has receded since this dialogue between Moltmann and several Mennonite scholars in the 80s, the reality of war has not. In this collection, enriched with a recent essay by Moltmann arguing that "the love of enemies is a realistic ethic of responsibility," Mennonites and Moltmann fruitfully push each other to clarify Lutheran, Reformed, and pacifist ethics in response to evil.
—Gayle Gerber Koontz
Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
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