A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder’s Nonviolent Epistemology

by John Howard Yoder

Publisher:

Cascade

, 2010

Overview

Editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather John Howard Yoder’s most important essays on Christian pacifism and epistemology—collecting a powerful group of writings on the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing. In these texts, they find the beginnings of a pacifist theology of knowledge that rejects strategies of empire while avoiding a self-defeating relativism.

Product Details

• Title: A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder’s Nonviolent Epistemology
• Author: John Howard Yoder
• Publisher: Cascade
• Print Publication Date: 2010
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Nonviolence › Religious aspects--Christianity; Nonviolence › Moral and ethical aspects
• ISBNs: 9781606088814, 1606088815
• Resource ID: LLS:PCFSTWYKNWNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:11:08Z

About John Howard Yoder

John Howard Yoder (1927–1997) taught ethics and theology at Notre Dame University and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He received his doctorate from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and was a member of the Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Indiana. Widely sought around the world as a theological educator, ethicist, and interpreter of biblical pacifism, he is best known for The Politics of Jesus, 2nd ed.. He is also the author of The Christian Witness to the State, The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical, and Nevertheless: The Varieties and Shortcomings of Religious Pacifism.