Revolutionary Christianity: The 1966 South American Lectures

by John Howard Yoder

Publisher:

Cascade

, 2011

Overview

The ambitious and accessible essays collected in this volume were presented by John Howard Yoder during an extensive visit to South America in 1966. Reflecting and also subverting the acknowledged “faddish” attempt to address the revolutionary nature of Christianity, these lectures provide an illuminating snapshot of Yoder’s vibrant initial encounter with Latin American Christianity. In these lectures, he thematically addresses the shape of the free church, the Christian practice of peace, and the place of the church in the midst of revolution. In a manner that betrays his confidence in the eventual triumph of faithfulness, Yoder concludes that the peace-witnessing free church is, by definition, always the community that is the soul and conscience of our revolutionary age.

Product Details

• Title: Revolutionary Christianity: The 1966 South American Lectures
• Author: John Howard Yoder
• Publisher: Cascade
• Print Publication Date: 2011
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Christian ethics › Mennonite authors--Addresses, essays, lectures; Social ethics › Addresses, essays, lectures
• ISBNs: 9781610970006, 1610970004
• Resource ID: LLS:RVLTNRYCHRSTNTY
• Resource Type: text.monograph.lecture
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:50:37Z

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.