Table of contents for Anabaptists & postmodernity / edited by Susan Biesecker-Mast and Gerald Biesecker-Mast ; foreword by J. Denny Weaver.

CONTENTS

The C. Henry Smith Series 11 
Foreword by J Denny Weaver 12 
Editors Preface, by Gerald and Susan Biesecker-Mast 15 
     Introduction: Anabaptists and Postmodernity: A Risky/Risque Proposition, by 
     Susan Biesecker-Mast 19

PART I: RADICAL CHRISTIANITY AND POSTMODERN THEORY
Chapter 1 The Christian Difference: or Surviving Postmodernism
     Stanley Hauerwas  41

Chapter 2 Foucault, Genealogy, Anabaptism: Confessions of An Errant Postmodernist 
     Peter C. Blum  60

Chapter 3 "Universal Truths": Should Anabaptist Theologians Seek to Articulate Them? 
     Thomas Finger  75

PART II: ANABAPTIST STORYTELLING AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Chapter 4 Valuing the Story of Power and Telling a Grander One: Anabaptism and Power
Postmodernism in Mutually Enlarging Conversation 
     Michael A. King  91

Chapter 5 Postmodern Practice and Parody: Dallas Wiebe's Our Asian Journey
     Paul Tiessen  106

Chapter 6 Context, Conflict, and Community: South German Mennonites at the Threshold of
Modernity, 1750-1850 
     John D. Roth  120

PART III: MARGINAL VOICES AND CHURCH POLITY
Chapter 7 When Bloch Pointed to the Cages Outside the Cathedral
     Scott Holland  147

Chapter 8 Mennonite Literature and Postmodernism: Writing the `In-Between' Space 
Hildi Froese Tiessen • 160

Chapter 9 (In)visible Cities, (F)acts of Power, (Hmm)iliry, Fathers and (M)oth-
ers: Anabaptism, Postmodernity, and Mennonite Writing
     Jeff Gundy  175

PART IV: PRACTICAL DISCIPLESHIP AND LITURGICAL RENEWAL
     Chapter 10 Recovering the Anabaptist Body (To Separate It for the World)

     Gerald Biesecker-Mast  193

     Chapter 11 Leitourgia Beyond Altar and Sacrifice: How Then Shall We Worship/ Serve God?
     John Richard Burkholder  214

Chapter 12 The Lord is Still My Shepherd When I Sing: Experiencing God in Postmodern
Anabaptist Worship 
     Marlene Kropf  233

PART V: RELIGIOUS PARTICULARITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY
Chapter 13 Nicaea, Womanist Theology, and Anabaptist Particularity
     J. Denny Weaver  251

Chapter 14 Anabaptist Autonomy, Evangelical Engulfment, and Mennonite Mestizaje: Three
Postmodern Options 
     Douglas Jacobsen  280

Chapter 15 The Vow of Stability: A Premodern Way through a Hypermodern World
     Gerald W. Schlabach  301

PART VI: PEACE WITNESS AND POLITICAL COMMITMENT
     Chapter 16 Sticks and Stones, Words and Bones: The Body of Christ and the Gospel of Peace
     John Stahl-Wert  327

Chapter 17 Christian Pacifism as Friendship with God: MacIntyre, Mennonites, and the
Genealogical Tradition 
     Chris K. Huebner  339

Chapter 18 Anabaptists and Postmodernity: Two Visions of Hope
     Thomas Heilke  356

PART VII: CULTURAL CAPTIVITY AND CHRISTIAN FREEDOM
Chapter 19 Postmodern Experiments: Blips or New Revolution?
     Leo Driedger  285

Chapter 20 Following Christ in a Postmodern World
     J. Lawrence Burkholder  406

Select Bibliography 415 
Index 429 
The Contributors 437 
The Editors 440