TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pitts,Jamie
TI  - Principalities and powers: revising John Howard Yoder's sociological theology 
SN  - 9780718842161
AV  - BX8143.Y59 P58 2013
U1  - 230.97092 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Lutterworth Press
KW  - Yoder, John Howard.
KW  - Bourdieu, Pierre,
KW  - Theology
KW  - Powers (Christian theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Power (Christian theology)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - RELIGION / Faith
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 9, 2014); Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-224); Introduction -- Revising Yoder's theology of creation -- Revising Yoder's theological anthropology -- Revising Yoder's theology of violence -- Revising Yoder's theological method -- Revising Yoder's ecclesial politics -- Revising Yoder's theology of Christian particularity -- Conclusion
N2  - The present book is an attempt to grapple with Yoder's critics in order to decide how to move forward with a revised ""Yoderian"" theology. Pitts suggests how that revision should be accomplished by first providing an overview of the current state of Yoder scholarship and this book's place within it; then proposing an argument that Yoder's theology can profitably read as a ""sociological theology"" that exhibits reductive tendencies, but which can be revised to be non-reductive; and finally offering an outline and justification of the proposed method of revision, which involves putting Yoder's
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