Citation

Barber D. Mod. Theolog. 2007; 23(1): 63-89.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-0025.2007.00353.x

PMID

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Abstract

John Howard Yoder's work, while appreciated in many respects, is not generally read in a philosophical register. This essay attempts to alter this situation by proposing a relation between his theology and a philosophy of particularity. The project articulates a logic of Jesus that is independent from and antagonistic towards the Powers. This logic is resolutely secular, revolutionary, and creative. I contend that Jesus' “equality with God” amounts to a radical affirmation of history and temporality. Yoder's work is presented as a zone of interference, a particular vantage from which a simultaneous practice of philosophy and theology becomes possible.