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Principalities and Powers: Revising John Howard Yoder's Sociological Theology

Principalities and Powers: Revising John Howard Yoder's Sociological Theology

Pitts, Jamie

Hardcover

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $53.00

ISBN10: 1498263615
ISBN13: 9781498263610
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Jul 12 2013
Pages: 266
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Evaluations of John Howard Yoder's legacy have proliferated since his death in 1997. Although there is much disagreement, a broad consensus is forming that his theology was, on the one hand, focused on the social and political meaning of the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ and, on the other hand, sociologically reductive, hermeneutically tendentious, and ecclesiologically ambiguous. This book proposes a revision of Yoder's theology that maintains its broadly sociological emphasis but corrects for its apparent problems. In specific, adjustments are made to his social theory to open it to spiritual reality, to hone its analytical approach, and to clarify its political import. His preferred framework for social criticism, the theology of the principalities and powers, is examined in the context of his wider work and its critics, and then synthesized with concepts from Pierre Bourdieu's influential reflexive sociology.

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