Contents
PRACTICING THE POLITICS OF JESUS
The Origin and Significance
of John Howard Yoder’s Social Ethics

Foreword 11
Series Preface 14
Series Editor’s Foreword 15
Author’s Preface 18

Chapter 1: Yoder Rearranges the Theological Landscape • 23

Chapter 2: North American Mennonite Experience • 32
Amsterdam 1952
American Church and Society in the Postwar Era
Mennonite Mentors at Goshen College
Conclusion

Chaper 3: European Experience and the Debate About War • 70
A European Assignment
Relating to European Mennonite Churches
Confronting the Moral Question of War
The World Council of Churches Debate
Conclusion

Chapter 4: Doctoral Studies with Barth and Cullmann • 101
The Theology of Karl Barth
Oscar Cullmann and Biblical Studies
Other European Conversations
Conclusion

Chapter 5: Disseration on the Swiss Anabaptists • 140
Historical Anabaptist Research
The Core of Anabaptist Beliefs
Constructing an Anabaptist Theology
Conclusion

Chapter 6: Understanding the “Politics of Jesus” • 173
Characterizing Theologies
Yoder’s Theological Language
Yoder’s Constructive Theology
A Lived Praxis
Conclusion

Chapter 7 The “Politics of Jesus” as Social Practice • 212
The Challenge of Just Peacebuilding
Basic Principles of the “Politics of Jesus’
A Conversation with Catholic Peace Traditions
Just Peacebuilding Collaboration
The Social Praxis of the Christian Community
A Religious Peacebuilding Program
Conclusion

Bibliography 251
The Index 264
The Author 273