This book assesses the work of John Howard Yoder, author of ‘The Politics of Jesus’ and the many other noted writings within which he engaged in principled, patient, nonfoundationalist, and unsystematic conversation with the Bible, with his Anabaptist tradition, and with such thinkers as the Niebuhrs and Hauerwas. The book also places Yoder in new discussions, such as with Derrida and Said — and extends the conversation to the 16 insightful Yoder scholars writing in this volume. “This book does exactly what John Howard Yoder did in person and in his writings by alerting us to how often we do violence by the way we read — so careful to control the history of our own minds! Let this book challenge the way you think, especially about what really matters for Christians. You probably won’t agree with everything in these writers’ critiques of Yoder’s vast and vastly divergent work, but then, if you read as Yoder taught us, you won’t agree any longer with your former self either.” — Marva J Dawn
ISBN: 9781931038201 (2004) 358pp