Discipleship As Political Responsibility
John Howard Yoder (1927-1997), the most influential Anabaptist voice in theolog and ethics prior to his death, continues to have impact.In his preface to Discipleship as Political Responsibility, Stanley Hauerwas describes Yoder as forcing us to think differently by retraining the way we speak and write. If Hauerwas is right about this, (and I think he is), this book will force us to think differently about what it means for Christians to take up political responsibility. The two essays included here, The state in the New Testament, and Following Christ as a Form of Political Responsibility, show Yoder working out the material that later became part of his Christian Witness to the State and The Politics of Jesus. --Mennonite Brethren Herald