This review appears in Brethren Life and Thought Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 85-86. Reprinted w... more This review appears in Brethren Life and Thought Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 85-86. Reprinted with permission.
Christian accounts and practices of justice and peacebuilding must be rooted in the church as it ... more Christian accounts and practices of justice and peacebuilding must be rooted in the church as it understands itself to be the Spirit enlivened body of Christ and the locus of God's missional, reconciling work in creation. This paper will take a narrative approach to account for Christian peoplehood as a way to see peacebuilding and church as inseparable and necessary.
This paper is an historical-theological reflection on the Schwarzenau Brethren, and especially th... more This paper is an historical-theological reflection on the Schwarzenau Brethren, and especially the branch that developed into the modern-day Church of the Brethren. It addresses Brethren teaching on: Christology, ecclesiology (critique and a constructive argument), (non-)sacramental theology, and nonconformity in the digital age.
This paper is a woven review of Kavin Rowe's "World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman... more This paper is a woven review of Kavin Rowe's "World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age" (Oxford, 2009) and James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World" (Oxford, 2010). It also addresses Charles Taylor's "social imaginary" framework as a way for Christians to read both Scripture and contemporary culture in deeper ways.
This paper will take an historical and narrative approach to address the restorative justice move... more This paper will take an historical and narrative approach to address the restorative justice movement and its resonance with overarching biblical themes of justice and community. It will do so bycomparing the histories and assumptions of both the restorative justice movement and the criminal justice system. Finally, early Anabaptist experience will be examined as a way to see how thebeginnings of the restorative justice movement may have been conceivable centuries later.
This review appears in Brethren Life and Thought Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 85-86. Reprinted w... more This review appears in Brethren Life and Thought Vol. 59, No. 1 (Spring 2014): 85-86. Reprinted with permission.
Christian accounts and practices of justice and peacebuilding must be rooted in the church as it ... more Christian accounts and practices of justice and peacebuilding must be rooted in the church as it understands itself to be the Spirit enlivened body of Christ and the locus of God's missional, reconciling work in creation. This paper will take a narrative approach to account for Christian peoplehood as a way to see peacebuilding and church as inseparable and necessary.
This paper is an historical-theological reflection on the Schwarzenau Brethren, and especially th... more This paper is an historical-theological reflection on the Schwarzenau Brethren, and especially the branch that developed into the modern-day Church of the Brethren. It addresses Brethren teaching on: Christology, ecclesiology (critique and a constructive argument), (non-)sacramental theology, and nonconformity in the digital age.
This paper is a woven review of Kavin Rowe's "World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman... more This paper is a woven review of Kavin Rowe's "World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age" (Oxford, 2009) and James Davison Hunter's "To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World" (Oxford, 2010). It also addresses Charles Taylor's "social imaginary" framework as a way for Christians to read both Scripture and contemporary culture in deeper ways.
This paper will take an historical and narrative approach to address the restorative justice move... more This paper will take an historical and narrative approach to address the restorative justice movement and its resonance with overarching biblical themes of justice and community. It will do so bycomparing the histories and assumptions of both the restorative justice movement and the criminal justice system. Finally, early Anabaptist experience will be examined as a way to see how thebeginnings of the restorative justice movement may have been conceivable centuries later.
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