Revolutionary Christianity
Subtitle: the 1966 South American lectures
By: John Howard Yoder ; edited by Paul Martens ... [et al.].
Contributors: Martens, Paul Henry
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781610970006
Subjects: Church and the world; Mennonite authors; Christian ethics; Peace; Social ethics; Christianity
Description: 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.
Notes: Collected lectures originally presented at the Seminario Evangelico Menonita in Montevideo, Uruguay, and the Facultad de Teológia Evangélica and the Seminario Internacional Teológico Bautista in Buenos Aires, Argentina during summer 1966.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I. The believers church. Only believers; title: The commission to bind and loose; title: The mandate to share; title: Walking in the resurrection; title: II. Peace. Discipleship in the Sermon on the mount; title: The Cross as a social fact; title: Love and responsibility; title: The values and limits of the just war; title: A biblical view of history; title: III. Church in a revolutionary world. The otherness of the church; title: Christ and the powers; title: Constantinianism old and new; title: Revolution and gospel; title: The meaning of our revolutionary age.