Chris Huebner
{{short description|Theologian}}
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| birth_name = Christopher Kennedy Huebner
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}
| birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Canadian Mennonite Bible College | University of Manitoba | Duke University}}
| thesis_title = Unhandling History
| thesis_year = 2002
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Christopher Kennedy Huebner{{cite journal |last=Lockwood |first=Thornton C. Jr. |year=2005 |title=A Topical Bibliography of Scholarship on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: 1880 to 2004 |url=https://www.academia.edu/2310266 |url-access=registration |journal=Journal of Philosophical Research |volume=30 |page=103 |doi=10.5840/jpr20053048 |issn=2153-7984 |access-date=30 September 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (born 1969){{cite book |last=Huebner |first=Chris K. |year=2006 |title=A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity |location=Waterloo, Ontario |publisher=Herald Press |page=4 |isbn=978-0-8361-9341-1}} is an associate professor of theology and philosophy at Canadian Mennonite University,{{cite web |title=Chris Huebner |url=http://www.cmu.ca/about.php?s=faculty&id=490 |location=Winnipeg, Manitoba |publisher=Canadian Mennonite University |access-date=6 January 2018}} as well as co-editor of Herald Press's Polyglossia series.{{cite press release |last=Byler |first=Joshua |date=10 November 2006 |title=Polyglossia Series Released at Washington Religion Meeting |url=http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/releases/2006/11/Release05.htm |publisher=Mennonite Church Canada |access-date=6 January 2018 |archive-date=13 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613191158/http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/releases/2006/11/Release05.htm |url-status=dead }}
Huebner was born and raised in Winnipeg. He received a Bachelor of Theology degree from Canadian Mennonite Bible College in 1992, as well as Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in philosophy from the University of Manitoba in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theology and ethics from Duke University in 2002 with the dissertation Unhandling History: Anti-Theory, Ethics, and the Practice of Witness.{{cite thesis |last=Huebner |first=Chris K. |year=2002 |title=Unhandling History: Anti-Theory, Ethics, and the Practice of Witness |type=PhD diss. |location=Durham, North Carolina |publisher=Duke University}} Prior to teaching at CMU, he was {{citation needed span |text=a part-time instructor in philosophy at the University of Manitoba; |date=January 2018}} an instructor {{citation needed span |text=in religion and philosophy |date=January 2018}} at Meredith College; and an instructor {{citation needed span |text=in the university writing program |date=January 2018}} at Duke University. Huebner's writing is primarily in the area of philosophical theology and can be located at the intersection of politics and epistemology,{{citation needed|date=January 2018}} with a special interest in questions of peace and violence.{{cite web |title=Chris K. Huebner |url=https://ml.bethelks.edu/author/huebner-chris-k/ |website=Mennonite Life |location=North Newton, Kansas |publisher=Bethel College |access-date=6 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107174817/https://ml.bethelks.edu/author/huebner-chris-k/ |archive-date=7 January 2018 }}
Selected bibliography
{{cquote|float=right|width=40%|Anyone who reads Huebner's reflections and analysis of the habits that shape our lives—and in particular, how those habits threaten to erode the significance of memory for those who have lost the ability to remember—will be stricken by the gentle wisdom that informs his description of those whom he knows he must remember.|author=Stanley Hauerwas{{cite book |contributor-last=Hauerwas |contributor-first=Stanley |contributor-link=Stanley Hauerwas |last=Huebner |first=Chris K. |year=2006 |contribution=Foreword |title=A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity |location=Waterloo, Ontario |publisher=Herald Press |page=10 |isbn=978-0-8361-9341-1}}}}
= Books =
- The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder. Co-edited with Hauerwas, Stanley; Huebner, Harry J.; Thiessen Nation, Mark. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-8028-3862-9}}.
- {{cite book
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
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|year=2006
|title=A Precarious Peace: Yoderian Explorations on Theology, Knowledge, and Identity
|location=Waterloo, Ontario
|publisher=Herald Press
|isbn=978-0-8361-9341-1
}}
- The New Yoder. Co-edited with Dula, Peter. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-60899-044-3}}.
= Theses =
- {{cite thesis
|last=Huebner
|first=Christopher K.
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|year=1995
|title=Alasdair MacIntyre's Tradition-Constituted Enquiry: An Examination of Its Aristotelian Elements
|degree=MA
|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba
|publisher=University of Manitoba
|hdl=1993/18853
|hdl-access=free
|isbn=978-0-612-13200-9
}}
- {{cite thesis
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2002
|title=Unhandling History: Anti-Theory, Ethics, and the Practice of Witness
|type=PhD diss.
|location=Durham, North Carolina
|publisher=Duke University
}}
= Book chapters =
- "History, Theory, and Anabaptism: A Conversation on Theology After John Howard Yoder". With Hauerwas, Stanley. In Hauerwas, Stanley; Huebner, Harry J.; Thiessen Nation, Mark. The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 1999. {{ISBN|978-0-8028-3862-9}}.
- "The Work of Inheritance: Reflections on Receiving John Howard Yoder". In Bergen, Jeremy M.; Siegrist, Anthony G. Power and Practices: Engaging the Work of John Howard Yoder. Waterloo, Ontario: Herald Press. 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-8361-9447-0}}.
- "Marginality, Martyrdom, and the Messianic Remnant: Reflections on the Political Witness of St. Paul". In Reimer, Stephen R.; Gay, David. Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press. 2010. pp. 131–148.
- "The Work of Reading: Hauerwas, MacIntyre, and the Question of Liberalism". In Pinches, Charles R.; Johnson, Kelly S.; Collier, Charles M. Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. 2010. pp. 284–299.
- "Is a Christian University Strange Enough?" In Doerksen, Paul G.; Koop, Karl. The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications. 2011. pp. 152–159.
= Journal articles =
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2002
|title=Review of Artists, Citizens, Philosophers: Seeking the Peace of the City: An Anabaptist Theology of Culture by Duane K. Friesen
|journal=Mennonite Quarterly Review
|volume=76
|issue=1
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2002
|title=Review of The Politics of the Cross: The Theology and Social Ethics of John Howard Yoder by Craig A. Carter
|journal=Modern Theology
|volume=18
|issue=2
|doi=10.1111/1468-0025.00190
|issn=1468-0025
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2003
|title=Bioethics and the Church: Technology, Martyrdom, and the Moral Significance of the Ordinary
|url=http://www.mennovision.org/Vol%204%20No%201/Huebner_Bioethics-and-the-church.pdf
|journal=Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology
|volume=4
|issue=1
|pages=74–81
|issn=1492-7799
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2003
|title=Peace and War in the Nation-State and Beyond: A Response to George Weigel, 'Moral Clarity in a Time of War'
|url=https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-58-no-2/article/peace-and-war-in-the-nation-state-and-beyond-a-res/
|journal=Mennonite Life
|volume=58
|issue=2
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107061153/https://ml.bethelks.edu/issue/vol-58-no-2/article/peace-and-war-in-the-nation-state-and-beyond-a-res/
|archive-date=7 January 2018
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2004
|title=Review of The Nonviolent Atonement by J. Denny Weaver
|journal=Modern Theology
|volume=20
|issue=3
|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0025.2004.00264.x
|issn=1468-0025
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2007
|title=Review of John Howard Yoder: Mennonite Patience, Evangelical Witness, Catholic Convictions by Mark Thiessen Nation
|journal=Journal of Religion
|volume=87
|issue=3
|pages=441–443
|doi=10.1086/519879
|issn=1549-6538
}}
- {{cite journal
|last=Huebner
|first=Chris K.
|display-authors=0
|year=2008
|title=Review of The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World by Miroslav Volf
|journal=Modern Theology
|volume=24
|issue=3
|pages=513–516
|doi=10.1111/j.1468-0025.2008.00476.x
|issn=1468-0025
}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1402 Article by Chris Huebner] from Direction
- [http://www.bethelks.edu.libaccess.lib.mcmaster.ca/mennonitelife/2003June/huebner.php Article by Chris Huebner]{{Dead link|date=August 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from Mennonite Life
- [http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/releases/2006/11/Release05.htm Polyglossia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613191158/http://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/releases/2006/11/Release05.htm |date=13 June 2011 }} Series launch
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