The Politics of Rudy Wiebe in 'The Blue Mountains of China'
Edit Page
Report
Scan day: 18 February 2014 UTC
-644
Virus safety - good
Description: Essay by Ervin Beck from the Mennonite Quarterly Review.
: Although Rudy Wiebe's novel was published in 1970, two years before John Howard Yoder's , the novel reflects many elements of Yoder's political ethics. The influence of Yoder upon Wiebe was direct, both through Yoder's essay "The Original Revolution" and through the friendship that developed between the two men from 1963 to 1967, when Wiebe taught at Goshen College. John Reimer-who bears traits of both Yoder and Wiebe-is the main voice for Yoderian ideas in the novel and, indeed, was created as a unifying device by Wiebe as his direct response to "The Original Revolution." This essay discusses four concerns of Yoder that are also present in Wiebe's novel: the nature of the church, strategy and revelation, effectiveness and faithfulness, and the outcome of history.
Size: 821 chars
Contact Information
Email:Send Message
Phone&Fax: —
Address: —
Extended: —
WEBSITE Info
| Page title: | Beck, Oct. 99 |
| Keywords: | |
| Description: | This document was created using ED'S HTML Converter at http://www.creighton.edu/~burma |
| IP-address: | 199.8.232.90 |
WHOIS Info
| NS | Name Servers: DNS.GOSHEN.EDU 199.8.232.100 DNS2.GOSHEN.EDU 199.8.232.10 |
| WHOIS | |
| Date | activated: 17-Mar-1993 last updated: 06-Jul-2012 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |