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A Genealogy Of The Confession Of Faith In Mennonite Perspective, Susan L. Trollinger
A Genealogy Of The Confession Of Faith In Mennonite Perspective, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
This essay offers a genealogy, in the Foucauldian sense, of the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective. Thus, it provides an account of the origins of the document and its uses over time with attention given to the politics of both. The essay argues that the Confession was critical for the merger of the General Conference Mennonite Church and the Mennonite Church especially as it took on the function of the "teaching position" of the church. By way of a case study, the essay explores recent uses to which the Confession has been put. The essay concludes by …
Nonviolence, Anabaptism, And The Impossible In Communication, Susan L. Trollinger
Nonviolence, Anabaptism, And The Impossible In Communication, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
In a sense, the discipline of communication is all about peace. This is so because the discipline seeks to explain the relationship between communication and understanding as well as to promote better understanding through instruction in effective communication practices. Thus, all sub-disciplines of communication-from organizational communication to public address to health communication-address both theoretical and practical questions about how communication assists or frustrates human understanding. To the extent that an understanding serves as an antidote to human conflict, then, communication seeks to promote peace.
The Aporetic Witness, Susan L. Trollinger
The Aporetic Witness, Susan L. Trollinger
English Faculty Publications
The opportunity that this shift from modernity to postmodernity may have opened for faith to speak to reason has not gone unnoticed by theologians. Indeed a number of what we might call poshnodern theologians have advocated various ways that Christians ought to wihless in their contemporary context. However, because these theologians have tended to mistake our postmodern world for a pluralistic world, they also have tended to write theologies that promote cultural security over faithful witness.