Blogs about: John Howard Yoder
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The church-as-polis
In his excellent book Christ, History and Apocalyptic Nate Kerr criticizes the “church-as-polis” model in favor of a missionary conception of the church. For those schooled in the world of Stanley Hau… more →
Rain and the Rhinoceros
Leithart on Just War Theory
tylerray wrote 1 week ago: Peter Leithart is one of my favorite authors. He has recently written an outstanding book on hermen … more →
Pacifism and Reality: An Honest Opinion
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joejames wrote 2 weeks ago: This is from Dr. Richard Beck’s blog “Experimental Theology” It is his Veteran … more →
Pacifism: Police and Defensive War, Part 1
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Jay Guin wrote 1 month ago: John Howard Yoder argues that Christian pacifism should reject service in the military but not the p … more →
Pacifism: John Howard Yoder, Part 2
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Jay Guin wrote 1 month ago: Christian subordination Yoder criticizes the positivistic view of government — that whatever g … more →
Pacifism: John Howard Yoder, Part 1
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Jay Guin wrote 1 month ago: The late John Howard Yoder’s seminal The Politics of Jesus has had a dramatic impact on evange … more →
John Howard Yoder on The US Constitution and Racial Reconciliation
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Rod wrote 1 month ago: Since it is Fall Break, I have been catching up with reading John Howard Yoder’s For The Natio … more →
pro-life
brambonius wrote 1 month ago: I am a Christian. I try to follow Jesus, and sometimes I feel like a great failure in that. But some … more →
pro-life
brambonius wrote 1 month ago: I am a Christian. I try to follow Jesus, and sometimes I feel like a great failure in that. But some … more →
Churches of reconciliation: the diverse church as good news for the world
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Nathan Hobby wrote 1 month ago: Here’s the text version of the paper; the previous post offered a pdf version. WA TEAR Confere … more →
Translate? Contextualize? Accommodate?
Cabe wrote 1 month ago: A handful of Messianic Jews, moving beyond the defenses of their somewhat separate society to attack … more →
Seek the Peace of the City -- Wipf and Stock Publishers
witheredgrass wrote 2 months ago: In 2004, Richard Bourne — who is currently a Senior Lecturer in Theology at the University of … more →
Cruciform Justice 10: The War of the Lamb
Jeremy Berg wrote 2 months ago: I have so far in this series highlighted the inadequacies of two of the key aspects of the popular h … more →
Faith Lessons by Ray Vander Laan: When the Rabbi Says "Come," Part 2
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Jay Guin wrote 2 months ago: During Wednesday night’s class with the teachers and in reviewing the comments, it’s cle … more →
Three Notes on Non-violence
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jstambaugh wrote 2 months ago: Last Christmas, Reed began a series on Theophiliacs about Non-violence. It’s a really good se … more →
In the Mail: John Howard Yoder's For The Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical
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Rod wrote 3 months ago: Last week, in my desperate need to read more and more of John Howard Yoder’s work in my precio … more →
Appropriate quote from Michael Jensen
Mike S wrote 3 months ago: “Waiting means resisting the powers and authorities where they counter Christ’s ultimate autho … more →
Yoder’s Ethics Part 2 – Powers and Politics
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Mike S wrote 3 months ago: Chapter 8 of The Politics of Jesus is where reading Yoder really pays dividends; where he shows the … more →
Our Lamb Has Conquered, Let Us Follow
washedpig wrote 3 months ago: This summer, after a gruling month in Spanish, I took a Christian Ethics class here at Lee with Dr. … more →
Pacifism, Just-War, and Doxology: Yoder as Militant Pacifist
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John Tyson wrote 3 months ago: “To see history is to be empowered and obligated to discern, down through the centuries, which histo … more →
