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What a Mennonite Theologian’s Quietist Reading of the Hebrew Bible Gets Wrong
John Howard Yoder’s pedagogical Scripture.
In his influential book The Politics of Jesus, the prominent Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) put forward a Christian case for pacifism and abstinence from politics. Unlike other pacifist Christian thinkers, Yoder did not wish to ignore or reject the Hebrew Bible; rather, in a series of separate essays, he argued that it be seen as a story of the education first of mankind, and then of the Jews, in pacifism—preparing them, in his view, for the purely nonviolent message of the Christian messiah. Peter Leithart identifies the flaws in this approach:
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What a Mennonite Theologian’s Quietist Reading of the Hebrew Bible Gets Wrong
John Howard Yoder’s pedagogical Scripture.