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John Howard Yoder · 1994
A theological and ethical study examining Jesus Christ's political and social teachings, arguing for the pacifist and revolutionary implications of the New Testament message within Christian ethics and ecclesiology.
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What this book knows
Jesus' life and cross constitute a concrete social ethic, not a spiritual symbol requiring secular translation for political relevance.
obedience-and-authority
The cross is beginning to loom not as a ritually prescribed instrument of propitiation but as the political alternative to both insurrection and quietism.
PJVA-RC-037The kings of this earth lord it over their subjects; But it shall not be so among you.... For I am among you as one who serves.
PJVA-RC-039calling
He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor; He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives... To set at liberty those who are oppressed.
PJVA-RC-030The Jewish contemporary would likely have heard in this song the echoes of the song of Hannah, whose imagery is not only revolutionary...
PJVA-RC-023faith-and-doubt
The reconstruction of a social ethic on this side of the transition will derive its guidance from common sense and the nature of things — the theology of the natural.
PJVA-RC-012The more confidently the critics project their new vision... the more likely will be the confirmation of those elements with which we are here dealing.
PJVA-RC-016Illuminates
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