Witness, Democracy and Civil Society:

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" Witness, Democracy and Civil Society: "
Richard Bourne

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1065884
Doc. No	:	LA109513
Call No	:	‭10.1177/1744136607073349‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Richard Bourne
Title & Author	:	Witness, Democracy and Civil Society: [Article] : Reflections on John Howard Yoders Exilic Ecclesiology\ Richard Bourne
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Ecclesiology
Date	:	2007
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Page No	:	195–213
Abstract	:	This article examines the compatibility between an ecclesial focus in contemporary theological ethics and an account of democratic citizenship. It focuses on the work of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. It explores the use of a motif that appeared with increasing frequency in Yoder's later writings, and has yet to receive much substantial academic attention — that of exilic citizenship. It then notes parallels between this exilic ecclesiology and contemporary understandings of civil society. It concludes that an exilic reading of Christian witness provides a fruitful basis for a theology of democratic participation. This article examines the compatibility between an ecclesial focus in contemporary theological ethics and an account of democratic citizenship. It focuses on the work of the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. It explores the use of a motif that appeared with increasing frequency in Yoder's later writings, and has yet to receive much substantial academic attention — that of exilic citizenship. It then notes parallels between this exilic ecclesiology and contemporary understandings of civil society. It concludes that an exilic reading of Christian witness provides a fruitful basis for a theology of democratic participation.
Descriptor	:	citizenship
Descriptor	:	civil society
Descriptor	:	coercion
Descriptor	:	exile
Descriptor	:	witness
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1177/1744136607073349‬