Fred 'Tripp' York (B.A.,
Trevecca
Nazarene University
; M.T.S., Duke University
; Ph. D., Garrett-Theological Seminary) is a
professor of religion, a
Christian
anarchist, and a novelist. His writings span a wide range of
subjects including: animals,
martyrdom,
politics, and violence.
York belongs to the
Mennonite tradition
that has a 500 year old history of
Christian pacifism. Most Mennonites
advocate the refusal to serve in any governmental capacity, or at
least those that assume coercion and violence (government,
military, police force, etc.). York has written extensively on the
North American Christians' complicity with power and suggests a
return to a more diasporic understanding of Christian practice. He
emphasizes the witness of
Christian
anarchists such as
Peter Maurin,
Dorothy Day,
Ammon Hennacy, and the
Berrigan Brothers, and shows a great
indebtedness to the the work of
John
Howard Yoder,
William
Stringfellow, and
Stanley
Hauerwas.
His book
Anesthesia:
A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics is a
fictitious attempt to reveal how embedded moderns are in
romanticized accounts of love that he argues must necessitate
death.
He teaches at
Elon University in
Elon, N.C.
Works
- The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom. Herald
Press, 2007.
- Anesthesia:
A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics. Seaburn
Press, 2008.
- Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian
Anarchists of the 20th Century. Wipf & Stock, 2009.
- Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics and Economics,
with D. Stephen Long and Nancy Ruth Fox. Baylor University Press,
2007.
Notes
External links
- This article was taken from Theopedia.
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http://www.christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=959
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http://www.christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=922
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http://www.christianethicstoday.com/cetart/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.main&ArtID=813
- http://wordpress.com/tag/tripp-york/
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http://indiefaith.blogspot.com/2008/12/review-of-tripp-yorks-politics-of.html
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http://events.the-dispatch.com/burlington-nc/events/show/85534538-tripp-york-on-tour-for-book-the-purple-crown-the-politics-of-martyrdom-polyglossia-radical-reformation-theologies
- http://www.seaburn.com/Anesthesia.htm
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