Stanley Hauerwas's The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard PDF

By Stanley Hauerwas

ISBN-10: 1597522260

ISBN-13: 9781597522267

Few fresh Christian thinkers were as generally influential as John Howard Yoder (1927-1997). Encompassing a educating occupation of greater than thirty years and such landmark courses as 'The Politics of Jesus', Yoder's lifestyles and notion have profoundly impacted scholars and co-workers from a wide variety of disciplines. within the phrases of Stanley Hauerwas, Yoder is without doubt one of the significant theologican/ethicists of this half-century in the USA and positively the best Mennonite theologian of the 20th century. 'The knowledge of the go' is the one booklet to supply important secondary essays attractive Yoder's crucial theological issues, including a biographical mirrored image on his lifestyles and legacy. Written by means of students either from inside of and outdoors of Yoder's Mennonite group, those essays enhance the main major elements of Yoder's notion - from his strong security of Christian pacifism to his seminal research of the politics of Jesus to his tough contributions to Christian social ethics, ecclesiology, and theological technique. The booklet additionally contains a formerly unpublished essay on ethical absolutes by means of Yoder himself. A becoming tribute to Yoder's exotic profession, this quantity could be valuable to readers new to Yoder's paintings and to these wishing to probe extra deeply into the results of his thought.

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