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Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective

Theology of Mission: A Believers Church Perspective

by John Howard Yoder, Andy Alexis-Baker and Gayle Gerber Koontz

2014 Best Texts of Missiology, from Byron Borger, Hearts and Minds BookstoreJohn Howard Yoder, author of The Politics of Jesus (1972), was best known for his writing and teaching on Christian pacifism. The material in Theology of Mission shows he was a profound missiologist as well. Working from a believers or free church perspective, Yoder effortlessly weav… Read more…

The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking

The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking

by John Howard Yoder, Glen Harold Stassen, Mark T. Nation, Matt Hamsher, Glen Stassen, Mark Nation and Mark Thiessen Nation

John Howard Yoder was one of the major theologians of the late twentieth century. Before his death, he planned the essays and structure of this book, which he intended to be his last work. Now two leading interpreters of Yoder bring that work to fruition. The book is divided into three sections: pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory. The vol… Read more…

Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution

Christian Attitudes to War, Peace, and Revolution

by John Howard Yoder, Theodore J. Koontz and Andy Alexis-Baker

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 first time,… Read more…

Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method

Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method

by John Howard Yoder

Long familiar to theologians and theology students, John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) is increasingly recognized as one of the most significant theologians of the later twentieth century. Yoder, hailed as a gifted proponent of Anabaptist social ethics, was also an astute and ecumenically-minded constructive theologian.Preface to Theology, initially developed as … Read more…