Tripp York
Encyclopedia
Fred "Tripp" York is a professor of religion and a prolific Mennonite writer (B.A., Trevecca Nazarene University
; M.T.S., Duke University
; Ph.D., Garrett-Theological Seminary). His writings span a wide range of subjects including: animals, martyrdom, politics, violence, and religious satire.
York belongs to the Mennonite
tradition that has a 500 year history of Christian pacifism
. He 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 Dorothy Day
, and Daniel
and Philip Berrigan
.
His novella Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics
attempts to reveal how contemporary accounts of love can only culminate in their own undoing.
He teaches at Western Kentucky University
in Bowling Green
.
Trevecca Nazarene University
Trevecca Nazarene University is a private Christian liberal arts college located in Nashville, Tennessee.-History:TNU was founded in 1901 by Cumberland Presbyterian minister J. O. McClurkan as the "Pentecostal Literary and Bible Training School"...
; M.T.S., Duke University
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
; Ph.D., Garrett-Theological Seminary). His writings span a wide range of subjects including: animals, martyrdom, politics, violence, and religious satire.
York belongs to the Mennonite
Mennonite
The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after the Frisian Menno Simons , who, through his writings, articulated and thereby formalized the teachings of earlier Swiss founders...
tradition that has a 500 year history of Christian pacifism
Christian pacifism
Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith. Christian pacifists state that Jesus himself was a pacifist who taught and practiced pacifism, and that his followers must do likewise.There have been various notable...
. He 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 Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...
, and Daniel
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan, SJ is an American Catholic priest, peace activist, and poet. Daniel and his brother Philip were for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for their involvement in antiwar protests during the Vietnam war....
and Philip Berrigan
Philip Berrigan
Philip Francis Berrigan was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest...
.
His novella Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics
Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics
Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics is a novella written by Mennonite theologian Tripp York. Anesthesia explores the interconnections of love, death and philosophy. The novella is heavily influenced by Greek philosophy, comic books, pop culture, as well as the work of Søren...
attempts to reveal how contemporary accounts of love can only culminate in their own undoing.
He teaches at Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University is a public university in Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA. It was formally founded by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1906, though its roots reach back a quarter-century earlier....
in Bowling Green
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Bowling Green is the third-most populous city in the state of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, with a population of 58,067 as of the 2010 Census. It is the county seat of Warren County and the principal city of the Bowling Green, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area with an estimated 2009...
.
Works
- The Devil Wears Nada. Cascade Books, 2011.
- Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire. Cascadia Publishing, 2011.
- The Gift of Difference: Radical Orthodoxy, Radical Reformation, with Chris K. Huebner, CMU Press, 2010.
- Donkeys and Kings. Resource Publications, 2010.
- Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century. Wipf & Stock, 2009.
- Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary AestheticsAnesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary AestheticsAnesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics is a novella written by Mennonite theologian Tripp York. Anesthesia explores the interconnections of love, death and philosophy. The novella is heavily influenced by Greek philosophy, comic books, pop culture, as well as the work of Søren...
. Seaburn Press, 2008. - The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom. Herald Press, 2007.
- Calculated Futures: Theology, Ethics and Economics, with D. Stephen Long and Nancy Ruth Fox. Baylor University Press, 2007.