After sharing reflections on my relationship to John Howard Yoder and his legacy in a previous blog entitled “Only Those We Need Can Betray Us,” I received the following comments (which I have edited somewhat) from a senior Mennonite scholar: _______________________________________________________________ Thanks for your pain-ridden comments on Yoder. I can’t say I had tears, but…
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Only those we need can betray us: My relationship with John Howard Yoder and his legacy
Recently Paul Martens and Jonathan Tran of Baylor University “interviewed” me by email for forthcoming articles they are preparing for The Christian Century and The Other Journal, along with co-authors David Cramer and Jenny Howell. Their work seeks both to investigate and to reflect theologically on now-well-documented sexual abuse by John Howard Yoder, leading spokesman for Christian pacifism and…
The Christian witness in the earthly city
John H. Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor Presented at conference on “Assessing the Theological Legacy of John Howard Yoder,” University of Notre Dame, 7-9 March 2002 For final published version see chapter 11 in Ollenburger and Gerber Koontz, eds., A Mind Patient and Untamed: Assessing John Howard Yoder’s Contributions to Theology Ethics and Peacemaking, Cascadia Publishing, 2004….
Faithfulness, temptation and the Deuteronomic juncture
Is Constantinianism the most basic problem for Christian social ethics? Marpeck Lecture, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 5 March 1998 For a fuller development of this lecture, see “Deuteronomic or Constantinian: What is the Most Basic Problem for Christian Social Ethics?” in The Wisdom of the Cross: Essays in Honor of John Howard Yoder, eds Stanley Hauerwas, et al. (Grand…