Retail Price: $27.00
Web Price: $21.60
ISBN 10: 1-59244-084-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-59244-084-9
Pages: 258
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 10/25/2002
Division: Wipf and Stock
Category: Theology
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For the Nations
Essays Evangelical and Public By John Howard Yoder
Author - John Howard Yoder
"This book is a masterwork from a master theological craftsman. John Howard Yoder is perhaps the best worker in Christian theology in America today, though his modesty (and others' presumption) still hides his accomplishment from some. Here, answering the question raised by The Politics of Jesus, Yoder addresses the major challenge facing American churches—the authentic mode of Christian existence in society today. In full command of his material, Yoder provides a powerfully stated, radically catholic answer." —James Wm. McClendon Jr. Fuller Theological Seminary
"It has been Yoder's vocation to proclaim a gospel of biblical realism that challenges both the biblicism of many other self-identified 'evangelicals' and the pretenses of 'political realism' of many of his theological and secular contemporaries. He has insisted on a coherent witness that is at once 'sectarian' and 'catholic,' even while it celebrates both the diaspora of Judaism-become-Christianity and the radical New Testament theology of the cross. These essays from several decades all testify to 'the politics of Jesus' that transforms conventional assumptions about both power and weakness. They combine to offer what Yoder calls 'one holistic, Christological, paradigmatic proclamation: servanthood, enemy love, forgiveness." —Alan Geyer Wesley Theological Seminary
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