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King, James. "Christianity under the state : with Yoder, after critique." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225936.
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Chapter 1: I construct a synthetic reading of the political works of John Howard Yoder, demonstrating that they offer a theological doctrine of the state, counter to the received opinion of Yoder scholarship. While human social life is deemed entirely political, the concept of principalities and powers is shown to be key to understanding Yoder's conception of the state. Further, Yoder demonstrates an apocalyptic political theology, which, as well as waiting on God's action, is also empowered to act in the created realm in the present, secular age. Chapter 2: Stanley Hauerwas' work applies Yoder's concept of the church as political to an understanding of the church in liberal American society and finds this latter to threaten the integrity of Christian distinctiveness both personal and ecclesial. Hauerwas' theology is shown to be deficiently apocalyptic, with the results that he disallows the state a role in God's providence and also has difficulty providing a consistent understanding of possibility of goodness outwith the church. Chapter 3: John Milbank's elaborate reconstruction of the modern Western political and social imaginary as heresy is introduced from a number of angles. Criticisms are made of tensions in Milbank's early and later work between a democratic impulse and a commitment to a sovereign monarch and an aristocratic elite governing society, and between a Baroque-postmodern understanding of human social construction and ideals of a perduring nature and transcendental goodness, beauty and truth. Chapter 4: Following Yoder's suggestion of conscientious participation, a case study is made of Paul Butler's call for a campaign of nullifications of prosecutions of nonviolent black offenders, leading into a consideration of the jury as a valid site of conscience with liberal democracies. The jury's representativity is such that a jury expresses the community's conscience when those individuals called to serve on a jury are invited to express their moral beliefs, even those informed by religion convictions.
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Yoder-Short, Jane. "Nonconformity to the world as redefined by John Howard Yoder." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Koyles, John Patrick. "The trace of the face in the politics of Jesus experimental comparisons between the work of John Howard Yoder and Emmanuel Levinas /." This edition also available online via Florida State University:, 2009. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04042009-132424.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2009.<br>Advisors: John Kelsay, Martin Kavka, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Religion. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Aug. 18, 2009). Document formatted into pages; contains v, 177 pages. Includes bibliographical references.
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Albeck-Gidron, Rachel. "The Holocaust as a Changing Presence in Yoel Hoffmann’s Texts." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5330/.
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Yoel Hoffmann is an Israeli writer born in 1937 in Brasov (Kronstadt), Romania. Brought up in a German-speaking family, already in his first book, Sefer Yosef (1989), he conveys the voice of German-speaking immigrants in Israel (the “Katschen” story, 1986) and that of the East European Jewish community in Berlin in the late 1930s, on the verge of the Second World War. His works are crammed with characters of Jews from Germany gripped by the memory of the language they abandoned following their emigration to Palestine in the 1930s. The classic one is the character of Bernhard, in the eponymous work.
The current article focuses on the representation and elaboration of Hoffmann’s unique creation, in a language influenced by his deep identification with Zen Buddhism on the one hand, and his attraction to the modernist, Western style of stream of consciousness on the other. In central sections of his works, Hoffman presents his entire literary corpus as a type of explicit, allusive, or secret Holocaust literature, and invites his readers and his critics to decode the allusions and expose the secret in this theme, a surprising statement in relation to Hoffmann’s work and its analysis so far. Hoffmann represents the Holocaust as a collective Israeli trauma for which his literary fiction creates a special catalogue of representative characters. In the creation of a catalogue, and particularly one that simultaneously classifies and individualizes, Hoffmann’s project resembles the monumental 1920s cataloguing project by the celebrated German photographer August Sander (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts). Hoffmann included photographs from this project in his works, and even chose some of them for the covers of his books. The article examines the implicit relationships between these two creative artists as conferring a meaning so far not considered in the research of the Holocaust theme in Yoel Hoffmann’s writings.<br>Yoel Hoffmann ist ein israelischer Autor, der 1937 in Brasov (Kronstadt), Rumänien geboren wurde. Er wuchs in einer deutschsprachigen Familie auf. Bereits in seinem ersten Buch Sefer Yosef (1989) verleiht er den deutschsprachigen Immigranten in Israel (die „Katschen”-Geschichte, 1986) und der osteuropäisch-jüdischen Gemeinschaft im Berlin der späten 1930er Jahre vor Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs eine Stimme. Sein Werk ist mit jüdischen Protagonisten aus Deutschland gespickt, die von der Erinnerung an die Sprache erfasst sind, von der sie sich seit ihrer Emigration nach Palästina in den 1930er Jahren zu lösen versuchen. Ein klassisches Beispiel hierfür ist die Figur des Bernhard in Hoffmanns gleichnamigem Werk.
Der folgende Artikel fokussiert die Darstellungsweise und Ausarbeitung von Hoffmanns einzigartigem Werk, dessen Sprache einerseits durch seine tiefe Identifikation mit dem Zen Buddhismus und andererseits durch einen den Autor anziehenden, modernistischen westlichen Stil des Bewusstseinsstroms beeinflusst wurde. In zentralen Teilen seines Werkes stellt Hoffmann seinen gesamten literarischen Textkorpus als einen Typus der expliziten, anspielenden oder aber verborgenen Holocaust-Literatur dar. Er lädt seine Leserschaft und seine Kritiker dazu ein, seine Anspielungen zu dechiffrieren und das Geheimnis seiner Themen aufzudecken. Dies ist eine überraschende Aussage in Bezug auf Hoffmanns Werk und dessen bisherige Analyse. Der Autor stellt den Holocaust als ein kollektives israelisches Trauma dar, für das seine literarische Fiktion einen speziellen Katalog repräsentativer Charaktere erstellt hat. Bei der Erstellung dieses Katalogs, dies insbesondere da er zeitgleich klassifiziert und individualisiert, ähnelt Hoffmanns Projekt dem monumentalen Katalogisierungsprojekt der 1920er Jahre, das von dem gefeierten deutschen Fotografen August Sander (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts) durchgeführt wurde. Hoffmann bezieht Fotografien aus Sanders Projekt in sein Werk ein und verwendet sogar einige der Abbildungen für die Titelseite seiner Bücher. Der Artikel behandelt die implizite Beziehung zwischen diesen beiden kreativen Künstlern und lässt diesem Aspekt eine Bedeutung zuteil werden, die bislang in der Forschung über Holocaust Themen in Yoel Hoffmanns schriftstellerischem Werk keinen Niederschlag fand.
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Yoder, Jonathan Keith. "The effects of spotted owl litigation on national lumber markets." Thesis, Montana State University, 1994. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/1994/yoder/YoderJ1994.pdf.
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Spotted Owl litigation has led to substantial fluctuations in Pacific Northwest public timber availability from 1987 to the present. A theoretical and two distinct empirical models using monthly data are developed to understand and test the potential of this litigation to affect the national market for lumber. The results of an econometric framework indicate that Northwest public timber fluctuations have affected the Northwest lumber industry, but provide no evidence that the effects are felt in other regions of the United States. A time-series approach indicates that the Northwest lumber market is affected by these timber fluctuations, and that regional lumber markets are interdependent, but again, there is no direct evidence that Northwest public timber fluctuations have affected the lumber markets of other regions. Using each of these empirical frameworks, intervention analysis is performed to test the significance of individual litigation events on regional lumber markets. Econometric-model intervention results provide no evidence to suggest that individual litigation events have influenced these markets, but time-series intervention results suggest that lumber prices may have been influenced by some of the litigation in question.
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Yoder, Elliott Cory. "The Yoder Three-tier Model for Optimal Planning and Execution of Contingency Contracting." Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/351.
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MBA Professional Report<br>Acquisition research (Graduate School of Business & Public Policy)<br>Contingency efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and several other countries in the last few years have been subjected to close scrutiny and critique. Contingency Contracting operations are increasingly the major source of support and provisioning in forward theaters, especially in light of reductions in organic (non-contracted) support capabilities. Recently, theater combatant commanders have come to rely on contingency contracting officers to support coalition forces, and concurrently, to achieve a transformation of the economic landscape essential for achieving theater objectives. But, critics of recent operations cite deficiencies in DoD's ability to effectively and efficiently conduct a coordinated contracting support effort that integrates the combatant commander's theater objectives with the myriad stakeholders deemed essential for success. Can we, the military, achieve better results? The author contends that with proper understanding of integrated planning and execution, contingency contracting operations can, and will, provide significant leverage for achieving the combatant commander's objectives.
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Carter, Craig Alan. "The pacifism of the messianic community, the Christological social ethics of John Howard Yoder." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0017/NQ46667.pdf.
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Bourne, Richard. "Seek the peace of the city : the radical theological politics of John Howard Yoder." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.413297.
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Esteban, Albornoz Jacqueline, and Venegas Sara Liz Villavicencio. "Plan estratégico de la unidad de negocio logística en Yobel SCM Perú 2019-2021." Master's thesis, Universidad del Pacífico, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11354/2406.
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La unidad de negocio de Yobel SCM Logistics forma parte de la corporación Yobel, dedicada a ofrecer servicios logísticos integrales como operador 3PL. Actualmente cuenta con una cartera de 45 clientes de diferentes sectores económicos. En los últimos dos años, la unidad de negocio ha venido experimentando una constante caída en ventas debido a diversos factores del entorno interno y externo, tales como la situación competitiva del sector, ineficiencia en la gestión de los recursos e inadecuado nivel de servicio ofrecido a los clientes. Ante esta problemática, se propuso elaborar el presente plan estratégico en el cual convergen un conjunto de soluciones que permitirá a Yobel SCM Logistics asegurar la sostenibilidad del negocio a través del crecimiento de ventas, la reducción de costos y el incremento de la rentabilidad a corto y mediano plazo. El cumplimento de estos objetivos deberá estar alineado con la misión de la empresa, el desarrollo del conocimiento entre los colaboradores y la retención del talento para preservar su know how, que es fuente de su principal ventaja competitiva.
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Thomson, Jeremy Hamish. "The conflict-resolving church : community and authority in the prophetic ecclesiology of John Howard Yoder." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-conflictresolving-church--community-and-authority-in-the-prophetic-ecclesiology-of-john-howard-yoder(9a1e065e-7b8a-43e2-a029-7f5bdf876242).html.
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Prather, Scott Thomas. "The powers and the power of mammon : Karl Barth and John Howard Yoder in dialogue." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=211273.
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CHAPTER 1: This chapter sketches the major outlines of Karl Barth's theology of the powers. My account is structured by the three texts in which the powers are most explicitly discussed. Of particular importance here is the correspondence between God's justifying work and the powers' 'angelic' vocation of serving human history, and the ontologically impossible yet devastatingly real 'demonization' of the powers' own being-in-Christ. Finally, the key claim is developed that all earthly or human-historical power actively corresponds, for Barth, to either the 'heavenly-angelic' attestation of God's grace to humankind in Christ, or to the 'demonic', ontologically privative power of das Nichtige, which opposes God and creature. CHAPTER 2: Chapter two describes what I come to call Yoder's 'structural exousiology'. The primary aim of this chapter is to demonstrate that there is a theological rationale behind Yoder's adoption of the modern language of 'power-structures' to describe the being and work of the powers in human history. I do this by detailing, first, Yoder's (negative) response to Niebuhrian 'political realism', and secondly his (positive) theological appropriation and development of Hendrik Berkhof's exegesis of the Pauline powers. Importantly, this allows us to see how and why Yoder's exousiology is set against the theological division of socio-political life from the sustaining grace and judgment of God. Part 2.B develops this claim further, showing that God constitutes and sustains creaturely power not just through any form of divine sovereignty, but as the rule of Jesus Christ. CHAPTER 3: Chapter three first brings Barth and Yoder into dialogue, initially by examining the eschatological tenor of our thinkers' respective exousiologies. Their eschatologies confirm that creaturely history itself is the context in and for which Christ prophetically confronts the powers, and thus in which all persons are called (and the church is required) to have faith in and bear witness to God's victory. This conviction is seen to be bound to a shared way of thinking the grounds of the powers' historical corruption in terms of idolatry and injustice. Yet I argue that the crucial differences in their understandings of the powers also emerge here, in the way in which the 'grounds' of their idolatry and injustice is conceived. A critical interpretive line is opened here with respect to Barth's intra-personal metaphysic, in light of which Yoder's emphasis on the historical-structural constitution of specific forms of idolatry and injustice offers a necessary supplement and critique. The final section argues that the discursive or rhetorical tension emerging here also informs our thinkers' different ways of naming the church's confessional distinction from the stillrebellious 'world'. CHAPTER 4: The final chapter brings the critical line opened up in chapter three to bear on two specific forms of creaturely power - namely, those operative within political and economic life. Barth's ontological identification of the institution of 'the state' with the divinely ordained task of political service is shown to have problematic implications both for the relative (in)significance of human-historical injustice, and for the 'concentric' political analogy between Christian and civil communities. Yoder is again shown to have a more nuanced exousiological position, because of the christological clarity with which he is wont to distinguish between contingent forms, rather than a priori distinct realms, of political 'witness' to God's rule. The goal of part 4.B is to demonstrate not 'what' Barth and Yoder think about humane economy or its inversion by Mammon, but how they relate the orderingfunction of political power(s) to the economic question of Mammon. The concluding section glimpses at two other thinkers' (Ellul and Stringfellow) way of describing how Mammon operates idolatrously and unjustly in human social life.
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Pitts, James Drake. "Principalities and powers : revising John Howard Yoder's sociological theology." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9798.
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Evaluations of John Howard Yoder’s legacy have proliferated since his death in 1997. Although there is much disagreement, a broad consensus is forming that his theology was, on the one hand, focused on the social and political meaning of the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ and, on the other hand, sociologically reductive, hermeneutically tendentious, and ecclesiologically ambiguous. This thesis proposes a revision of Yoder’s theology that maintains its broadly sociological emphasis but corrects for its apparent problems. In specific, adjustments are made to his social theory to open it to spiritual reality, to hone its analytical approach, and to clarify its political import. To do so his preferred framework for social criticism, the theology of the principalities and powers, is examined in the context of his wider work and its critics, and then synthesized with concepts from Pierre Bourdieu’s influential reflexive sociology. Yoder maintains that the powers, understood as social structures, are part of God’s good creation, fallen, and now being redeemed through their subjection to the risen Lord Christ. Bourdieu’s fundamental sociological concepts--habitus, capital, and field--enable an interpretation of the powers as dynamically constituted by their relations to the triune God and to personal dispositions. His treatment of social reproduction and freedom furthermore facilitate a construal of choice as a divinely gifted, sociologically mediated freedom for obedience to God. The sinful restriction of this freedom is read in light of Bourdieu’s concept of symbolic violence, which recognizes the ambiguity of violence without thereby identifying any form of killing as nonviolent. Violence and other phenomena can be investigated by a reflexive, dialogical, and empirically rigorous comparison with the life of Christ. The church’s spiritual participation in the redemption of the violent powers is conceptualized in Bourdieusian terms as a critical legitimation of other political and cultural fields made possible through autonomy from those fields. Christian social distinctiveness moreover has universal meaning because it is oriented towards the worship of God and so radically welcoming of others; and this sociological universality is distinctive because it is the result of a particular history of social struggles with and for God. These revisions to Yoder’s theology of the principalities and powers produce a sociological theology that is material and spiritual, critical and dialogical, and particular and universal. By incorporating these revisions, Yoder’s work can continue to support those who seek peace in a world riven by violence.
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McKay, Niall. "Luke and Yoder : an intertextual reading of the third gospel in the name of Christian politics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17842.
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Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Critical New Testament study has drawn on analytical techniques and interrogatory methods from a
wide range of disciplines. In recent decades the dominance of historical and ecclesiologicallylocated
approaches have been challenged by insights from literary, sociological, anthropological,
cultural and ideological scholarship. These challenges have proved fruitful and opened biblical
scholarship to new and generative interpretation. This plurality of interpretation has in turn
challenged the reductionism of biblical scholarship, leading to the now common acknowledgement
that a particular reading or reconstruction is but one of many. Unfortunately many new readings
have been too tightly bound to a single method or insight. The broad interaction between these
readings has been often overlooked. In contrast to this trend an epistemology of text emerging from
the poststructural notion of intertextuality allows the construction of links between a range of
interpretive methods. Intertextuality emerges from literary and cultural theory but spills over to
make hermeneutical connections with historical, cultural and ideological theory. For the most part
New Testament scholars who have appropriated the term have noted this but not thoroughly
explored it. In this study an ideologically-declared overtly intertextual approach to the third
canonical gospel demonstrates the interlinking hermeneutic allowed by intertextuality. John Howard
Yoder's reading of the gospel of Luke underscores the development of a Christian social-ethic. This
reading in turn forms the framework for the more overtly intertextual reading offered here. An
intertextual reading of the New Testament Scriptures is both narratively generative and politically
directive for many Christian communities.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Kritiese Nuwe Testamentiese studies het in die verlede gebruik gemaak van analitiese tegnieke en
ondervraende metodes uit ‘n wye verskeidenheid van dissiplines. Meer onlangs is die oorheersing
van historiese en kerklik-gerigte benaderings uitgedaag deur insigte vanuit letterkundige,
sosiologiese, antropologiese, kulturele en ideologiese dissiplines. Hierdie uitdagings het vrugbaar
geblyk en het Bybelse vakkennis toeganklik gemaak vir nuwe en produktiewe interpretasies.
Hierdie meervoudige interpretasies het op hul beurt weer die reduksionisme in Bybelse geleerdheid
uitgedaag, wat aanleiding gegee het tot die nou algemene erkenning dat ‘n bepaalde vertolking of
rekonstruksie slegs een van vele is. Die breë wisselwerking tussen sulke vertolkings word dikwels
misgekyk. In teenstelling met hierdie neiging, laat ‘n epistemologie van die teks wat te voorskyn
kom uit ‘n poststrukturele begrip van intertekstualiteit toe dat verbande gekonstrueer word word
tussen ‘n verskeidenheid van vertolkingsmetodes. Intertekstualiteit spruit voort uit literêre en
kulturele teorie, maar vorm ook hermeneutiese skakels met historiese, kulturele en ideologie kritiek.
Die meeste Nuwe Testamentici wat gebruik gemaak het van hierdie term, het kennis geneem van
sulke verbande, maar dit nie altyd volledig verreken nie. In hierdie studie demonstreer ‘n
ideologies-verklaarde, openlik intertekstuele benadering tot die derde kanonieke evangelie die
gekoppelde hermeneutiek wat toegelaat word deur intertekstualiteit. John Howard Yoder se
vertolking van die Evangelie van Lukas plaas klem op die ontwikkeling van ‘n Christelike sosiale
etiek. Hierdie interpretasie vorm op sy beurt weer die raamwerk vir die meer openlik intertekstuele
vertolking wat hier aangebied word. ‘n Intertekstuele interpretasie van die Nuwe Testamentiese
geskrifte is beide verhalend produktief asook polities rigtinggewend vir talle Christelike
gemeenskappe.
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Vera, Valdivia Abel. "Estrategia Corporativa de YOBEL SCM para la Optimización y Estandarización de Procesos de Manufactura en Chile." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2008. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/101988.
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Yobel SCM empresa dedicada a la maquila de cosméticos, transformaciones y servicios logísticos en Latinoamérica ha determinado que los centros de manufactura en la región necesitan estandarizar y optimizar sus procesos, motivado principalmente por una diferencia entre la casa matriz y las filiales, estas últimas evidenciando una falta de control de gestión en los procesos y por los mercados cada vez más competitivos.
El objetivo general de este trabajo es alcanzar una operación de manufactura de clase mundial superior o al menos similar a sus pares en el resto de Latinoamérica, que contemple la implementación de indicadores de gestión y su aplicabilidad en los procesos productivos de la filial chilena, vinculando el objetivo de esta tesis a la estrategia corporativa de la compañía.
Para este estudio la metodología consiste en implementar los indicadores de gestión corporativos con la finalidad de medir los procesos actuales, posteriormente realizar el análisis de brechas, así como el análisis y selección de las alternativas de solución que disminuya las diferencias encontradas. Luego realizar el plan de implementación de la alternativa de solución para finalmente hacer el respectivo análisis relación costo – beneficio que permita acortar las diferencias entre los indicadores de gestión de la corporación y Chile, todo esto dentro del marco de los factores críticos de éxito (FCE) como son el apoyo de la gerencia, nivel de compromiso de los actores del proyecto, restricciones presupuestarias, factores culturales, tamaños de operación, infraestructura entre otros.
Se concluye que se cumplieron los objetivos y alcances del estudio, en los primeros meses de implementación se observa un comportamiento positivo en los indicadores de gestión respecto al benchmarking corporativo, los cuáles han subido en promedio 7 puntos porcentuales respecto a la realidad encontrada; se estimó la inversión para las mejoras en $5773000 pesos que se recupera en 13 meses.
Sin embargo este proceso no fue sencillo debido a los FCE como la resistencia al cambio, diferencias tecnológicas las que fueron superadas con trabajos en equipo, capacitación, gestión del cambio; así estas mejoras deben ser analizadas desde las perspectivas de personas, procesos y tecnología para superar dichos obstáculos.
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Richards, Amy Diane. "Bearing witness : an analysis of the reporting and the reception of news about distant suffering in the light of John Howard Yoder's work on witness." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/4492.
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In this thesis I analyse the reporting and the reception of news about distant suffering in the light of John Howard Yoder‘s work on witness. Studies of news reporting about foreign wars, genocide and disasters commonly conclude that the practice of bearing witness to distant suffering contributes to a context where both journalists and spectators appear to have limited moral agency. I argue that the practice of bearing witness has ethical significance for those actively engaged in bearing witnessing. In his work on Christian witness, Yoder demonstrates how witness can be understood as a method for moral reasoning. I assert that Yoder‘s argument presents a fruitful approach for interdisciplinary consideration of the ethical significance found in the practice of bearing witness to distant human suffering. In chapter one, I lay the foundation of my investigation into the ethical agency involved in bearing witness. John Howard Yoder‘s theological approach to social ethics provides that foundation. Central to Yoder‘s claim that witness is a form of ethics, is the premise that presence testifies. Yoder calls this the 'phenomenology of social witness‘. Yoder‘s work opens new ways in which to ask questions about the practice of bearing witness as a form of social ethics. It is from this foundation that I begin to ask questions about the news media practice of bearing witness to distant suffering, the subject of chapter two. Media practices are social practices that involve a dense interaction of many layers of society. In the media practice of witnessing distant suffering, governments, charities, news media organisations, and audiences are all involved in what I call the social formation of the Global Samaritan. The foundational work on Yoder in chapter one allows me to ask the question: How is the Global Samaritan a presence, and to what does this presence testify? In chapters three and four, I focus on two of the prominent groups which contribute to the formation of the Global Samaritan: audiences and foreign correspondents. News audiences as moral agents already seem a problem for Yoder‘s claim that presence testifies. Do audiences who bear witness to distant suffering have moral agency? How can the amorphous and fleeting presence of television, internet, or twitter audiences testify? In the chapter on audiences, the initial claim regarding presence makes for an important investigation into how audiences can potentially move beyond mere spectatorship and towards participation in care for the suffering. Foreign correspondents bearing witness to distant suffering do not face the same obstacles to testifying as audiences do. After all, foreign correspondents are often live, on-the-scene of extraordinary circumstances of suffering. The danger and risks foreign correspondents face in order to report live from scenes of devastation and disaster testify to the fact that the situation is indeed dangerous and causing suffering. Yoder‘s claim that presence testifies is a claim strongly paralleled within the tradition of investigative journalism. In chapter four, I investigate the ethical function of foreign correspondent presence. I consider the foreign correspondent‘s dual role as the proxy 'eyes and ears‘ of the public and the proxy voice for those without a voice. Through these two roles, I explore major concepts involved in the practice of investigative journalism. One prominent issue I explore is the tension between the principles of a liberal democratic press and the practice of frontline reporters live, on-the-scene of extraordinary and extreme situations. In the final chapter, chapter five, I focus on the experience of three frontline reporters bearing witness to human suffering. BBC [British Broadcasting Company] reporter John Simpson‘s reflections on his coverage of the beginning of the Iraq War illustrate the importance of bearing witness as involving real presence on location. Norwegian freelance reporter Ǻsne Seierstad‘s reflections on covering the Iraq War from Baghdad further contributes to the concept of 'being there‘ as central to bearing witness. Focus on Seierstad also furthers discussion on women reporters bearing witness to war. The third reporter I highlight is BBC reporter Fergal Keane. I focus on his reflections covering the Rwandan genocide to illustrate how the claim to bearing witness involves more than spectatorship, but often involves participation. I conclude with an analysis of the media practice of bearing witness, involving the range of reporter presence to the quasi-presence of the audience, in the light of John Howard Yoder‘s claim that bearing witness is a form of social ethics.
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Bertschmann, Dorothea Helene. "Bowing before Christ, nodding to the State? : reading Paul politically with Oliver O'Donovan and John Howard Yoder." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5247/.
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This thesis offers a close reading of two Pauline texts, Philippians 2:5-11 and Romans 13:1-7. Inspired by recent scholarship it asks whether Paul can be read in a politically relevant way. An interaction with the works of political ethicists O’Donovan and Yoder precedes the exegetical part to focus more sharply on relevant issues. In all their distinctive emphases both ethicists hold that the primary result of Christ’s Lordship is the church, which is (socio) political in a broad sense and governed by Christ. Christ’s Lordship is reflected but not mediated by the church and even less so by the state. Political authority with its use of temporal power is still needed by the church. The Christ-event indirectly affects political authority, re-locating and re-enlisting it. The church is both to grant the state some autonomy and to engage it with its evangelical ethos. Like O’Donovan and Yoder, Paul uses the metaphor of Christ’s Lordship with all its variable potential in a resolutely ecclesial way. He portrays the church as a socio-political body constituted and sustained by Christ’s Lordship, which nevertheless does not strive to be fully politicized and still needs structures of political authority. Unlike O’Donovan and Yoder, Paul sees political rule to be unaffected by the Christ event. While Paul’s narrative arguably shifts the center of hope and loyalty to Christ, this is not used to engage political rulers either positively or negatively. The latter’s task is unchanged and given approval as an abiding aspect of the divine work. While it does not match the height of God’s deed in Christ as embodied by the church, it shows the Christ believers that their ‘good’ is perfectly compatible with the demands of political rulers.
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Doerksen, Paul G. Kroeker P. Travis. "Beyond suspicion Post-Christendom Protestant political theology in the thought of John Howard Yoder and Oliver O'Donovan." *McMaster only, 2007.
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Mayurí, Valeriano Ismael Cristhian, Loarte Josseling Stefany Tello, and Panduro Paola Milagros Vásquez. "Propuesta de mejora del desempeño de la subunidad de negocio de distribución en Yobel SCM en el Perú." Master's thesis, Universidad del Pacífico, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11354/1491.
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El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como propósito mejorar el desempeño de la subunidad de negocio de distribución de Yobel SCM a través de la priorización y selección de los problemas relevantes de la misma, lo que puede permitir la alternativa de solución óptima para cada caso.
Para el desarrollo del trabajo de investigación se realizó un análisis y diagnóstico situacional del macroentorno y del microentorno. Con estos procedimientos se determinó que el entorno en el que se desempeña la empresa Yobel SCM es medianamente atractivo; que las estrategias actuales le permiten beneficiarse de las oportunidades y enfrentar las amenazas; que se encuentra a la par con sus principales competidores; y que el factor desarrollo tecnológico es clave para el éxito de la empresa.
También se realizó la descripción y el análisis de la organización en estudio. De esta forma, se analizaron los procesos de la cadena de valor de Yobel SCM, y se determinó que la empresa cuenta con amplia y comprobada experiencia en la administración de cadena de valor y que dentro de sus principales fortalezas en las subunidades de negocio de warehousing y manufactura se tiene el personal altamente calificado y las inversiones en infraestructura y tecnología, lo que convierte a Yobel SCM en uno de los principales líderes del mercado a nivel regional. Esto se aborda en el capítulo que comprende el planeamiento estratégico.
Posteriormente, se realizó el planteamiento y definición del problema. Mediante estos procedimientos se concluyó que los factores claves que quedan por mejorar percibidos por los principales clientes son: costo/precio, puntualidad, visibilidad y documentación completa. Sobre la base de estos factores, se analizó y determinó que los procesos de la cadena de valor que impactan directamente son: operaciones, desarrollo tecnológico y abastecimiento. Se describió también para cada uno de ellos la situación actual y la situación deseada. Con esta información se elaboró el plan de operaciones y el perfil logístico, planteando las alternativas de proyectos que permiten cumplir con el plan de operaciones propuesto y mejorar el desempeño de la subunidad de negocio de distribución de Yobel SCM.
Finalmente, se hizo la evaluación de las alternativas de proyectos, teniendo en cuenta que los proyectos cumplan con el objetivo planteado en el presente trabajo de investigación y estén alineados al plan corporativo, con el fin de lograr el mayor beneficio para Yobel SCM.
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Black, Andrew D. Hankins Barry. "Kingdom of priests or democracy of competent souls? the 'Baptist Manifesto,' John Howard Yoder, and the question of Baptist identity /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5017.
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Keeter, Gregory T. "Can Religion Help? Using John Howard Yoder and Mohandas Gandhi to Conceptualize New Approaches to Intractable Social and Political Problems such as Violence and War." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04112006-180956/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Timothy Renick, committee chair; Kathryn McClymond, Jonathan Herman, committee members. Electronic text (89 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 24, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-89).
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East, Bradley Raymond. "The Church's Book| Theology of Scripture in Ecclesial Context in the Work of John Howard Yoder, Robert Jenson, and John Webster." Thesis, Yale University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10783446.
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<p> Theological interpretation of Scripture has been ascendant in recent decades, and theologians and biblical scholars from a variety of backgrounds, areas of expertise, and ecclesial commitments have rallied around it. Increasingly, however, divisions are fraying the heretofore united front against historical criticism's dominance in academic biblical interpretation. This dissertation is an exploration of the reasons for these divisions. Its motivating thesis is that differences in ecclesiology lie behind disagreements about bibliology, which manifest in turn as divergences over theological interpretation. Prior to and operative within judgments about the nature, authority, and interpretation of the Bible stand judgments about the being, mission, and authority of the church. But the relationship between the two is not so linear as that. For the connections between them are direct and materially operative, and only more so when they remain implicit and therefore unexamined. Every account of the Bible both assumes and implies an account of the church, and vice versa: the lines of influence are reciprocal and circular. The Bible is always the church's book, the church always the community under the Bible's authority. </p><p> This dissertation responds, diagnostically and constructively, to this situation through engagement with particular figures. Specifically, it expounds one specific strand of bibliology influenced by the great Protestant theologian Karl Barth: the work, respectively, of John Howard Yoder, Robert Jenson, and John Webster. Each of these theologians is a contemporary Barthian <i> of a sort</i>, a student but not a disciple of the Swiss master. Given Barth's influence over the development of theological interpretation, this commonality is helpful both genetically (all three trace their thought to the–proximate–source) and substantively (their proposals share enough to make disagreement intelligible, and interesting). Moreover, Jenson, Webster, and Yoder represent, between them, the three great traditions of western Christendom: catholicism, the magisterial reformation, and the radical reformation. The specific ways in which their ecclesial commitments shape, inform, and at times determine their theological treatments of Scripture provide ideal examples of the phenomenon at issue in this dissertation.</p><p> Across five chapters, the project's principal aim is to demonstrate as well as examine the inseparable relationship between theology of Scripture and theology of the church. Along the way, the positions and proposals represented by Yoder, Jenson, and 'Webster come to light, and critical analysis of each highlights their respective strengths and shortcomings. In fulfilling these tasks the dissertation serves both as an initial reception of these theologians' bibliologies and as a critique of a feature–at times a problem–endemic to the current renewal of theological interpretation of Scripture.</p><p>
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García, Díaz Giovanna Pilar. "Desarrollo e implementación del sistema de gestión de calidad en el laboratorio de microbiología de la empresa Yobel Supply Chain Management S.A." Master's thesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/8970.
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Diseña y desarrolla el sistema de gestión de la calidad para el laboratorio de microbiología de la empresa Yobel Supply Chain Management S.A, siguiendo los lineamientos definidos en los requisitos de la norma ISO 9001:2008 para lo cual se generó una estructura documentaria basada en documentos tales como: planes maestros, procedimientos y formatos lo que permitió la estandarización y validación de cada actividad estableciendo en la organización procesos confiables y eficientes. El diseño del estudio es descriptivo, para ello se utilizó, instrumentos de investigación tales como las listas de verificación, encuestas y seguimiento in situ, que han permitido recolectar data e información, para un diagnóstico preciso y con ello identificar fortalezas y debilidades mostrando así la brecha que se debería cubrir para lograr la certificación externa, la cual está sustentada en el cumplimiento de lineamientos de calidad que abarcan desde el inicio del proceso, con la recepción, manejo y análisis microbiológico de las muestras hasta el fin del proceso con la emisión del informe final. En base a lo mencionado, el laboratorio de microbiología de YOBEL S.C.M., ha enfocado sus procesos en la satisfacción de las necesidades de sus clientes y en la mejora continua.<br>Tesis
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Peet, John Christopher. "The politics of the crucified : a study of the political theology of John Howard Yoder, Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino with special reference to the crucifixion." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1029/.
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Jesus died violently on the cross, the form of execution imposed on those who threatened the Roman imperial order. What difference does this make to Christian political theology? What is the revelatory value of Jesus’ death with regard to political theology? This thesis explores these questions, using a Christocentric methodology and taking three theologians in particular as interlocutors -– the Mennonite theologian John Yoder and the Latin American liberation theologians Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino – with special reference to an examination of the ways in which their political theologies are shaped by the cross. The first part of the thesis consists of a close analysis and comparison of the writings of the above theologians concerning the cross. In Yoder, the theme of a cruciform, non-violent and non-resistant church is emphasised. In Boff and Sobrino the cross is seen to represent a protest against suffering in the name of a crucified God in solidarity with a crucified people. In the second part of the thesis the perspective widens to examine two issues which particularly arise from this analysis – how a Christian doctrine of political power is affected by the crucifixion, and how the contemporary church, particularly in Britain, might adopt a ‘cruciform’ political praxis. The conclusion is drawn that the chief Christian criterion for analysing political power is victimological – i.e. from the perspective of the victims of power, rather than those who exercise it. In the light of this, and given its increasingly marginalised status, the church in Britain should abandon any pretensions to ‘Christendom’, formulate a cruciform political theology and willingly live out a cruciform status.
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Ndukwe, Olo. "Christian faith and social transformation : John Howard Yoder's social ethics as lens for revisioning the ecclesiological identity of the South Central Synod (SCS) of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria (The PCN)." Thesis, Link to the online verions, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1361.
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Webster, Michael Dean. "To Save the World: The Untold Stories of Memorial Row." The University of Montana, 2010. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05132010-141726/.
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On Arbor Day, 1919, 32 Ponderosa Pine trees were planted on the campus of the University of Montana to commemorate individuals associated with the university who died while serving Montana in World War I. Collectively called Memorial Row and situated among present-day McGill and Don Anderson Halls and the Social Science and Education buildings, the trees honor individuals who died in combat, as a result of combat injuries, and from the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 while stationed with the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) on the UM campus or at Fort Missoula. Four women who volunteered as nurses and died are also remembered. Contained herein are three stories of individuals memorialized in Memorial Row: James Claude Simpkins, a chemistry graduate of 1916 and second lieutenant in the First Army Air Service; Mrs. Solomon Yoder (a.k.a. Hazel Leonard), a nurse who volunteered at the SATC, contracted the flu and died a few days later; and Paul Logan Dornblaser, a UM football star and 1914 law graduate who served as a corporal in the 6th Marines, and after whom the UM athletic track is named.
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Wenell, Fredrik. "Omvändelsens skillnad : En diasporateologisk granskning av frikyrklig ungdomskultur i folkkyrka och folkhem." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-261170.
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The Difference of Conversion examines theologically the possibilities for a religious minority group to maintain its own corporate identity while contributing as a member of the greater society. The research centers on the Swedish Baptist denomination, Örebromissionen, and focuses on its youth ministry. The research material is the weekly newspaper Missionsbaneret. This examination is twofold: part one is a historical analysis, and the second, a Diaspora-theological analysis that results in the development of a Diaspora ecclesiology. The historical analysis is influenced by a discursive approach and emphasize two areas of focus; what makes something visible, or problematic, and which steering techniques that are used. The study covers three different periods – 1930s, 1950s and 1980s. The research shows that it has been a great challenge for Örebromissionen to maintain a corporate identity in Sweden, both during the Folk Church period as well as in the Folkhemmet period. The examination suggests that this depends on two coexisting processes; first, the understanding of personal conversion primarily as an emotional, datable, and complete experience within the denomination and secondly the strong emphasis of a shared identity in society. The theological analysis begins with a description of the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder’s Diaspora theology. Using Diaspora-theological analysis shows that the strong emphasis of a shared identity in Swedish society has changed the theology concerning personal conversion in relationship to moral values; where once conversion preceded moral change to later when moral development preceded conversion. This shift in understanding was brought about by new practices introduced in Youth Ministry. In conclusion it is suggested that a Diaspora ecclesiology that both wants to maintain a corporate identity as well as to contribute to a good society must emphasize a multi-cultural society, accentuate the individual as a part of a specific religious social body, and understand the religious corporate identity borders as porous, and therefore constantly re-negotiated.
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Tumeinski, Marc J. "A conspiracy of goodness : communal Christian practices in support of the vocation of peacemaking : an analytical reading of selected writings of John Howard Yoder and Joseph Ratzinger." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722156.
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Padilha, Fernanda Maria [UNESP]. "Bairros rurais paulistas: novas territorialidades - o município de Leme (SP)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/95636.
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Padilha, Fernanda Maria. "Bairros rurais paulistas : novas territorialidades - o município de Leme (SP) /." Rio Claro : [s.n.], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/95636.
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Orientador: Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro Oliveira<br>Banca: Solange Terezinha de Lima Guimarães<br>Banca: Neusa de Fátima Mariano<br>Resumo: Por meio deste estudo, pretendemos analisar quais as mudanças sócioeconômicas e culturais ocorridas nos bairros rurais do município de Leme-SP nos últimos 30 anos, tomando como base e referência para a análise os estudos sobre os bairros rurais paulistas realizados por Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz na década de 1960. Através da análise comparativa, buscou-se observar além das transformações, as formas de permanências ligadas ao modo de vida caipira presentes no espaço do bairro, na vida dos sitiantes, bem como nas formas de expressão cultural. Para tanto, dedicamos uma parte da pesquisa ao estudo de uma das festas religiosas populares realizada na zona rural do município, a Romaria dos Canoeiros.<br>Abstract: Through this study, we consider what are the socio-economic and cultural changes in the rural districts in the city of Leme-SP in the last 30 years, taking basis and reference the analysis that were made in the rural districts of São Paulo by Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz in the 1960s. Through comparative analysis, we attempted to look beyond the transformations and all the forms to stay connected to the rustic way of life in the lives of ranchers, as well as their forms of cultural expression. To closure, we dedicate part of the research to the study of popular religious festivals held in the rural municipality municipality, the Pilgrimage of Canoeists.<br>Mestre
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Karlsson, Martin. "Älska era fiender – på vilka grunder? : Exegetikens roll i John Howard Yoders, Walter Winks och Stanley Hauerwas tolkning av Matt 5:38-48." Thesis, Teologiska högskolan Stockholm, Avdelningen för teologi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ths:diva-66.
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Denna uppsats undersöker exegetikens roll i John Howard Yoders, Walter Winks och Stanley Hauerwas tolkning av Matt 5:38-48. Uppsatsens syfte nås genom att dels göra en exegetisk analys av Matt 5:38-48 i dess litterära och historiska kontext och att sedan studera utvald litteratur av de tre författarna och sedan jämföra deras material. Uppsatsen visar att alla tre författare menar att texten manar till en pacifistisk livshållning. Skillnaden mellan de tre ligger i att Hauerwas och Yoder väljer att förankra denna etik genom att läsa Matteusevangeliet som helhet medan Wink väljer att göra en ingående analys av vår aktuella text och istället söka efter textens ursprungliga historiska kontext. Genom att Yoder och Hauerwas väljer
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Phillips, Elizabeth Rachel. "Apocalyptic theopolitics : dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and ecclesial enactments of eschatology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288883.
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This thesis is a critical analysis of the theology and ethics of dispensationalist Christian Zionism in America. Chapter One introduces the thesis and its method, which draws constructively from history, sociology, and anthropology while remaining substantively theological. Chapter Two describes dispensationalism's origins in nineteenth-century Britain and its dissemination and development in America. Chapter Three moves from broad, historical description to the contemporary and particular through an introduction to Faith Bible Chapel (FBC), an American Christian Zionist congregation. This description arises from an academic term spent at FBC observing congregational life and conducting extensive interviews, as well as fieldwork undertaken in FBC's "adopted settlement" in the West Bank, including interviews with Israeli settlers about partnerships with American Christians. The remaining chapters move to more explicitly doctrinal analysis. Chapters Four through Six are shaped by William Cavanaugh's concept of 'theopolitics' (Theopolitical Imagination, 2002): a disciplined, community-gathering common imagination of time and space. Through the exploration of a key historical text (The Scofield Reference Bible, 1917) and its continuing legacies in the life and thought of FBC, these chapters examine the theopolitics of dispensationalist Christian Zionism, demonstrating that it is a complex system of convictions and practices in which the disciplines of biblicism and biblical literalism form an eschatology which subordinates ecclesiology and Christology, nurturing an imagination of the roles of Christ and the church in time and space which sever social ethics from necessary Christological and ecclesiological sources. John Howard Yoder's work is used to bring this system into relief, and to establish that eschatology per se is not inimical to Christian social ethics. Chapter Seven concludes the thesis with a summary of its findings, as well as a discussion of the positive functions of apocalyptic in Christian social ethics, pointing toward the possibility of alternative ecclesial enactments of apocalyptic theopolitics.
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Ozar, Ryan H. "Accommodating Amish Students in Public Schools: Teacher Perspectives on Educational Loss, Gain, and Compromise." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1531913852929844.
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Chlang, Yen-li, and 江彥瑮. "The Research on Business Management of Taiwan Hakka Yodel Troupe Case Study on Rom--Shing Hakka Yodel Troupe Team." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86jwe2.
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Lee, In-Yong. "John Howard Yoder on Christian Nonviolence and the Haustafeln." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5411.
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<p>One of the focuses of John Howard Yoder's theology is Christian nonviolence. From the teaching and example of Jesus, who dealt with the evil in the world and defeated it through obedience to the will of God to the point of dying on the cross, Yoder derives the normative Christian stance of nonviolence. It is expressed in the life of the disciples in their suffering with Christ the hostility of the world as bearers of the kingdom cause and in their living out the suffering servanthood in place of dominion. For Yoder, subordination is how Christ's model of servanthood is carried out into the concreteness of family life, and it is most extensively explored in his essay, "Revolutionary Subordination," in The Politics of Jesus.</p><p>This dissertation is an attempt to read household codes in the New Testament, especially Col. 3:18-4:1, together with Yoder, with a special emphasis on the husband/wife relation. Due to an exceptionally controversial character of Yoder's essay, it seeks to understand his main points, while identifying the elements that have caused strong opposition. The fact that these Haustafel texts have been historically abused to legitimate oppression and exploitation of persons poses a warning in one's endeavor to interpret them. Particularly telling is Americans' experience around slavery during and after the Civil War. The conflicting interpretations of the Bible between the proslavery camp and the abolitionists leave us in a hard place in addressing the issue of women's status in the household and in society.</p><p>Through examining key debates on the Haustafeln in the biblical scholarship focused on James Crouch and David Balch; two alternative views on the subject in theological ethics - Yoder and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza - and further discussions of their views aided by theologians such as Gordon Kaufman, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jeffrey Stout, this study addresses issues found in Yoder and Schüssler Fiorenza. It concludes that Yoder's undue reliance on David Schroeder and his refutation of Martin Dibelius have led him to overlook the preexisting schema that was adopted and Christianized by the early church, and that he fails to name patriarchy a sin. Schüssler Fiorenza's problems are found in the areas of the biblical canon, tradition and democracy. The relevance of the slavery debates to this study is revisited through discussions of Mark Knoll and Dale Martin, and Yoder's nonviolent kingdom ethic is compared to Paul Ramsey's just war theory and backed up by Rowan Williams, Bernd Wannenwetsch, and Sarah Coakley.</p><br>Dissertation
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Collier, Charles Mayo. "A Nonviolent Augustinianism?: History and Politics in the Theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder." Diss., 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/911.
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<p>The theologies of St. Augustine and John Howard Yoder are, if at all treated together, typically contrasted. This negative juxtaposition is in so small part due to the very different reputations of each theologian on the question of violence. This dissertation demonstrates that the standard contrast between the theopolitical visions of Yoder and Augustine is mistaken. An introduction portrays the cumulative work of the chapters as the unfolding of a question about the contemporary reception of Augustine and Yoder: Might John Howard Yoder's "pacifism of the messianic community" be received as a radical form of Augustinianism? The dissertation consists of four chapters, each dealing with some aspect of Yoder's or Augustine's thought which, under closer examination, reveals an interesting line of convergence with the thought of the other. The politics of historical interpretation, the challenge of interiority, the aims of historicism, and the nature of "the political" are taken up in succession. An affirmative answer to the overarching question is suggested, but the more important task is to render the question salient for contemporary theologians and ethicists.</p><br>Dissertation
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Enns, Aiden John Schlichting. "Ecumenical concern from an Anabaptist perspective : the concept of the church in the thought of John Howard Yoder." 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/19147.
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Buller, Cornelius A. "Suffering and faith : their meaning and relationship in the thought of Karl Barth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Harold S. Bender and John H. Yoder." 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/16890.
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Parler, Branson L. "The Politics of Jesus and the Power of Creation." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10756/290728.
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This study examines the theology and social ethics of John Howard Yoder with a view toward how creation and redemption are related in his theology. The first chapter examines Yoder's aversion to certain construals of creation and argues that he is not inherently hostile to creation as such, but is cautious with respect to the possible abuse of creation as a theological and ethical category. The second chapter evaluates the nature of the state in Yoder's theology, examines his view of the Powers in this context, and argues that his view of redemption can be seen as a restoration of an eschatologically open creation. The third chapter compares Yoder's theology and social ethics with those of J. Richard Middleton, arguing that there may be a potential for interconnection between Yoder's Anabaptistic focus on the politics of Jesus and Middleton's Reformational emphasis upon the goodness of the power of creation seen in the imago Dei of Genesis I.