Secular Nonviolence and the Theo-Drama of Peace: Anabaptist Ethics and the Catholic Christology of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Introduction: Anabaptist ethics and Hans Urs von Balthasar`s Christology,
Mennonite Pacifism as Union with the Living Christ,
Early Anabaptist views on Christ and Nonresistance Martyrs Mirror and the Translation of Anabaptism into Daily,
Gelassenbeit,
The troubled defense of defenselessness in the Twentieth Century,
Pressures from within and without,
The relation of Anabaptism and Secularity,,
Responses to the Unity in diversity of Mennonites in Secularity,
Conclusion,
Incarnation: Bidirectional nonresistance,
Back to nonresistance,
Balthasar and Maximus the confessor,
The unguessable improvisation on a Nature,
The Transposition of Eternal Sonship,
The Dyothelite nonresistance of Christ to the human condition,
Nonresistance as patience in A Theology of History,
Implications,
Provocation: Violence in the Theo-drama,
Mennonite interpretation of revelation,
The Apocalypse as divine and human Rhetoric,
Liturgy and Slaughter,
The Pathos of humankind in its incarnational form,
The violent rejection of the incarnation,
The Church and Provocation,
Balthasar and Yoder together,
Implications,
Convocation: The Church and the Lamb,
The Ecclesial contours of Mennonite Pacifism,
Balthasar`s Theology of Love,
The Expropriation and Appropriation of the Believer in Christ,
The brother for whom Christ died,
Balthasar and judgement,
The implications of the Church as the convocation of enemies,
Conclusion: Christian practices of Theo-dramatic peacemaking