Category Archives: John Howard Yoder
[Book Review] Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution / John Yoder
Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution John Howard Yoder; Theodore J. Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker, editors. Brazos Press, 2009. Reviewed by Nathan Hobby. Like Preface to Theology (2003), this book is the material for a unit Yoder taught, edited … Continue reading
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Catching up with Yoder: An Introduction
John Howard Yoder’s ideas are catching on as the rest of the world catches up to him. Yoder was always reframing theological conversations, insisting we had the wrong assumptions and the wrong questions. He has important things to say about … Continue reading
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Yoder the Sinner
Back in December, I edited a special edition of On The Road focusing on ‘Catching up with Yoder‘, as in the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder. I’ve been meaning to put up articles I wrote in it ever since, and … Continue reading
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Yoder on Peace and War in the Middle Ages
John Howard Yoder’s Christian Attitudes to War, Peace and Revolution (Brazos, 2009) is a posthumously published, edited version of the notes Yoder distributed for his course in the subject. In chapter 8 ‘The Career of the Just War’ and chapter … Continue reading
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The Office and The Gospel of Matthew: Venting and Truthtelling
Yesterday I watched an episode of The Office where the inept boss, Michael, discovers that all his staff have been complaining about each other to the Human Resources officer. The HR officer takes down some notes and files it away; … Continue reading
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Disturbing Divine Behaviour : a review, part 1
Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God / Eric Seibert (Fortress Press, 2009) In this book, Eric Seibert tackles head-on a question which has long been in my mind: what are we to do with the troubling Old … Continue reading
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Churches of reconciliation: the diverse church as good news for the world
Here’s the text version of the paper; the previous post offered a pdf version. WA TEAR Conference 19 September 2009 As TEAR people, you already know that the good news is more than personal salvation after you die. You know … Continue reading
Writing novels for the kingdom
Last night I presented a paper to the Newbigin Group on “Writing novels for the kingdom.” Below is the introduction; if you like the sound of it, you can download the PDF file. It might be much more appropriate to … Continue reading
Political engagement: embodying the change AND speaking truth to power
Wonderful article by Jim Kumfer discussed last night at the Newbigin Group. (We didn’t get there, having locked ourselves out of the car and house as we were about to leave. D’oh.) Kumfer uses Yoder’s Body Politics to suggest that … Continue reading
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Anabaptism for Baptists: a historical legacy and a theological challenge
This is a talk I gave to a Baptist denominational distinctives class yesterday. Introduction We could look at Anabaptism in two ways. Firstly, as a historical movement in the sixteenth century – the radical reformers. That history is a helpful … Continue reading
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