associate professor
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Overview
In the '' North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is ...
of
theology
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Canadian Mennonite University
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a private Mennonite university located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with an enrollment of 1607 students. The university was chartered in 1999 with a Shaftesbury campus in southwest Winnipeg, as well as Men ...
, as well as co-editor of Herald Press's Polyglossia series.
Huebner was born and raised in Winnipeg. He received a
Bachelor of Theology
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Bachelor of Arts
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and
Master of Arts
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degrees in philosophy from the
University of Manitoba
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba. He received a
Doctor of Philosophy
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degree in theology and
ethics
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from Duke University in 2002 with the dissertation ''Unhandling History: Anti-Theory, Ethics, and the Practice of Witness''. Prior to teaching at CMU, he was an instructor at
Meredith College
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; and an instructor at Duke University. Huebner's writing is primarily in the area of
philosophical theology
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and can be located at the intersection of
politics
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and
epistemology
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Episte ...
, with a special interest in questions of peace and violence.
Selected bibliography
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. .
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*''The New Yoder''. Co-edited with Dula, Peter. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. 2010. .
Theses
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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. .
* "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. .
* "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.