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Things Hold Together John Howard Yoder's Trinitarian Theology Of Culture, Branson L. Parler
Things Hold Together John Howard Yoder's Trinitarian Theology Of Culture, Branson L. Parler
CTS PhD Doctoral Dissertations
Theologies of culture often focus on either Christ or creation as their primary source, to the exclusion of the other. At best, this approach is incomplete because it does not account for the continuity between creation and redemption. At worst, it posits a divide not simply between Christ and creation, but between persons of the Trinity, presuming contradictory moral and cultural norms issuing from different persons of the Trinity. John Howard Yoder is often depicted as a representative of a Christocentric and creation-deficient approach to culture. Against that faulty representation, this dissertation argues that Yoder advocates a Trinitarian theology of …