"Bikin cikar Cocin 'yan'uwa shekara 300 a shekara ta 2008"
(Satumba 15, 2008) - Fuller Theological Seminary a Pasadena, Calif., Yana neman kafa wata kujera da aka ba da kyauta ga tunanin Radical Reformation, mai suna don girmama John Howard Yoder da James William McClendon Jr. Wannan kujera za ta inganta binciken masana kimiyya. na Tarihin Gyaran Radical, tiyoloji, da ɗabi'a, kuma za su ba da jagoranci ga al'umma masu tasowa na ɗaliban Fuller da malamai daga al'adar Anabaptist.
John Howard Yoder na ɗaya daga cikin manyan wakilan wannan al'ada. An haife shi a Smithville, Ohio, kuma ya girma a cikin gidan Mennonite da ikilisiya. Sa’ad da yake matashi ya ba da kai don hidima a Faransa, inda ya sadu da matarsa, Annie Guth. Ya kammala karatunsa na digiri na uku a Basel, inda ya rubuta takardar shaidarsa da Jamusanci kan takaddamar da ke tsakanin Anabaptists da Reformers.
Yoder ya shiga jami'a a Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary a Elkhart, Ind., A cikin 1965, da na Jami'ar Notre Dame a 1977, inda ya koyar a cikin shirin karatun zaman lafiya da kuma a Sashen Tauhidi. An fi saninsa da littafinsa, “Siyasar Yesu,” wanda aka fara bugawa a shekara ta 1972, kuma an fassara shi cikin harsuna da yawa. Duk da yake shi ne masanin tauhidin Mennonite mafi tasiri a ƙarni na 20, kuma yayin da ya tsara tunanin Anabaptist kamar yadda wasu kaɗan suka yi, ya himmatu ƙwarai da gaske ga nacewa da tattaunawa mai haƙuri tare da babban jikin Kristi.
James McClendon ya sami gidan cocinsa na farko a tsakanin Kudancin Baptists. Duk da haka, karatun “Siyasar Yesu” ya shafe shi sosai. Hujjar Yoder na tsakiyar rashin tashin hankali a cikin hanyar Yesu, da kuma matsayin Ikilisiya a matsayin yin koyi da wani nau'i na rayuwa na zaman jama'a, ya sa shi ya rubuta tauhidin tsarin da ya dace da babban motsi na Kirista wanda ya zo ya kira "karami- b baptist,” fassarar kalmar Jamusanci “taufer.”
McClendon ya koma kudancin California a 1990 don tare da matarsa, Nancey Murphy, wanda ya fara koyarwa a Fuller a 1989. A Pasadena, McClendon da Murphy sun yi farin ciki da samun coci da kansu a cikin al'adar gyarawa. McClendon memba ne na Cocin Pasadena na 'yan'uwa har zuwa mutuwarsa a shekara ta 2000, kuma ya yi aiki na tsawon shekara guda a can a matsayin fasto na wucin gadi.
McClendon ya koyar da tarukan karawa juna ilimi kan tiyolojin gyara-gyare-gyare duka a Makarantar tauhidi ta Graduate da kuma a Seminary na Fuller, inda ya kasance Babban Malami a wurin zama. A cikin koyarwarsa da karatunsa ya sami tasiri sosai daga malaman Cocin 'yan'uwa kamar Dale Brown da Donald Durnbaugh.
Fuller Seminary an kafa shi a matsayin cibiyar da ba na addini ba, kuma ta kiyaye asalin bishara wanda ya hada da kowane irin kiristoci, daga Anglican zuwa Pentikostal. Yanzu akwai gagarumin kasancewar Anabaptist a harabar. Malamai bakwai sun yi daidai da al'adar. Don shekarun ilimi na 2006-07 da 2007-08, ɗalibai 56 waɗanda suka bayyana kansu a matsayin Mennonite, Brothers in Christ, and Church of the Brothers sun yi rajista a shirye-shiryen digiri daban-daban.
Hakanan mahimmanci shine gaskiyar cewa yawan jama'ar Fuller yana ƙara yawan ɗalibai da malamai daga sunan McClendon na baftisma mai fa'ida: Masu Baftisma waɗanda suka bibiyi tushensu har zuwa gyare-gyare mai tsauri dangane da manyan masu gyara; sababbin majami'u masu 'yanci waɗanda suka haɓaka a cikin iyakar Amurka; yawancin Pentikostal, masu kwarjini, da kiristoci marasa addini da sauransu. Dalibai daga Afirka, Asiya, da Latin Amurka sun gano al'adar Anabaptist don dacewa da mahallin su inda Kiristoci suka kasance marasa rinjaye. Ana baftisma yana ba su albarkatu don yin tunani ta tiyoloji da dabara game da bangaskiya a cikin mahallin da Kiristanci ba shi da wani gata matsayi.
–Nancey Murphy farfesa ne na Falsafar Kiristanci a Makarantar Koyarwar Tauhidi ta Fuller, kuma memba na Cocin Pasadena na 'Yan'uwa.
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