books by John Howard Yoder     books:     John Howard Yoder      What Would You Do? John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 1992 Pacifists Take Note This book is a collection of answers to the age-old question: If a violent person threatened a loved one, what would you do? It is a treasured part of my library because it provides both simple responses (my favorite being courtesy of Joan Baez), and complex ...             Discipleship As Political Responsibility John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 2003 An Insightful Call to Faithful Politics These incisive essays provide a much-needed antidote to the dominant reformed view of the state which has blinded the church to much of the evil done in the name of states. If one begins with the notion that the state is inherently good, much of their evil is justified ...             Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method John Howard Yoder Brazos Press, 2007 Hauerwas and Sider have done a great service This book was for a long time unpublished and available only as a privately photocopied book. This book, which is collated from Yoder's lecture notes is an absolutely brilliant survey which explains very well how the christocentric emphasis of anabaptist theology can ...             The Original Revolution: Essays on Christian Pacifism (Christian Peace Shelf Series) John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 2003 Essays on Pacifism... but read "The Politics of Jesus" first John Howard Yoder's collection of essays in "The Original Revolution" approaches the topic of religious pacifism on many fronts. It is a disjointed grouping, a fact which Yoder readily admits in his introduction, but it thereby allows for a fuller treatment of his ...             Schleitheim Confession John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 1977 Good, but not much background information It is good if you just want to review the Schleitheim Confession. However, if you are looking for more information on how and why it was written, look for other books on Michael Sattler. John Howard Yoder wrote one titled "The Legacy of Michael Sattler" that is ...             The Priestly Kingdom: Social Ethics As Gospel John Howard Yoder University of Notre Dame Press, 1985 Essential essays on a Radical Believers nonviolent church How can we explain a 2,000-year history of a church that calls Jesus the Lord, but does not follow him in his teaching and example of absolute nonviolence? John Howard Yoder invested his lifetime in answering that question--his best-known single work is The Politics ...             The Politics of Jesus John Howard Yoder Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994 THE POLITICS OF JESUS by John Howard Yoder The Politics of Jesus is John Howard Yoder's treatise on Jesus' political inclinations, based on and in response to twentieth century biblical scholarship. Yoder was a Mennonite biblical scholar, theologian, and professor of theology. The 1994 version of this book is a ...             Body Politics: Five Practices of the Christian Community Before the Watching World John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 2001 sacraments as social process If you ever thought the 'sacraments' were a little goofy as kind of magical acts, then this is the book for you. Approaches the church's practices as the place where God and man both act, and by doing so show forth the way the world is meant to (and one day will) be. I ...             The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 1994 Insightful, logical, compelling, but not conclusive! As a collection of essays and presentations by Dr. Yoder, one must remember that each section is intended to stand alone leading to much repetition and incohesiveness. Divided into two parts, the first dealing with the scriptural reality of God's people is more ...             The Christian Witness to the State John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 2002 Yoder is AMAZING!!! I don't know how this man is staying so little known throughout the general church body. Real this and think...we all need to think!             A Declaration on Peace: In God's People the World's Renewal Has Begun Douglas Gwyn, George Hunsinger, ... Herald Press, 1991             He Came Preaching Peace (John Howard Yoder) John Howard Yoder Herald Press, 1985 Sermons on peace by a peace theologian Once again Yoder speaks to the issue of peace with utmost clarity and insight. Leaning heavily on the Bible, Yoder's book is a series of sermon-like chapters that address various aspects of the scriptures in relation to peace and the kingdom of God. This book is ...             The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (Radical Traditions) John Howard Yoder Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2003 Extremely important text(s) (nearly ruined) The essays in this collection are some of the most important, original, and illuminating contributions to the study of Jewish-Christian relations/origins that I have come across. I think these essays are a "must-read" for any person interested in this field or related ...             Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution John Howard Yoder Brazos Press, 2009 John Howard Yoder was one of the most important thinkers on just war and pacifism in the late twentieth century. This newly compiled collection of Yoder's lectures and writings on these issues describes, analyzes, and evaluates various patterns of thought and practice in Western Christian history. The volume, now made widely available for the ...             God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom Eberhard Arnold, Bruderhof Plough Publishing House, 1997 Powerful Selections Fifty years after his death members of the Bruderhof communities (which he founded) chose those excerpts of Arnold's talks and writings, which they felt, were the most moving and relevant to them personally. This selection became the manuscript for God's Revolution, ...          products you might be interested in search for books declaration, discipleship, ecclesiological, jewish-christian, responsibility, schleitheim      toavi.com    web we recommend Pacifists Take Note randomly chosen DVD: The Aristocats (Special Edition)