Ben C. Ollenburger
Biography
Ben C. Ollenburger is professor emeritus of biblical theology at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) in Elkhart, Indiana, and previously taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, where Ollenburger earned a PhD. Ollenburger wrote God the Creator (2023) and wrote the foreword to Struggles for Shalom (2014).
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Reconciling Violence and Kingship
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“In this bracing study of the Deuteronomistic History, Marty A. Michelson combines a careful literary reading of key texts with Rene Girard's theory of mimetic violence, sacrifice, and the scapegoat mechanism to offer a fresh explanation of the emergence of kingship in Israel. Michelson's innovative study not only unsettles common historical assumptions but challenges readers to think in new ways, including positive ways, about violence and kingship, and the relation between the two. Girardian theory is here put to constructive historical use.”
Theology
“"In his many books and articles, and in a vast number of unpublished essays and lectures, John Howard Yoder encompassed virtually the entire theological curriculum. John Nugent, whose breadth is similarly impressive, has here provided a comprehensive summary and critical evaluation of Yoder's interpretation of the Old Testament, especially as it bears on the issue of 'pacifism,' or to be more precise, as Yoder and Nugent would have it, trust in God.”
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