Title: Revolutionary Christianity : the 1966 South American lectures /
Authors: Yoder, John Howard.; Martens, Paul Henry.
Publisher: Cascade Books,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Christian ethics Mennonite authors; Social ethics.; Church and the world.; Peace Religious aspects Christianity
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Introduction -- I. The believers church. Only believers -- The commission to bind and loose -- The mandate to share -- Walking in the resurrection -- II. Peace. Discipleship in the Sermon on the mount -- The Cross as a social fact -- Love and responsibility -- The values and limits of the just war -- A biblical view of history -- III. Church in a revolutionary world. The otherness of the church -- Christ and the powers -- Constantinianism old and new -- Revolution and gospel -- The meaning of our revolutionary age.