Contents
A Mind Patient and Untamed
Assessing John Howard Yoder's Contribution
to Theology, Ethics, and Peacemaking

Edited by Ben C. Ollenburger and Gayle Gerber Koontz


Editors’ Preface 9
Ben C. Ollenburger and Gayle Gerber Koontz

Introduction: Lingering with Yoder’s Wild Work 11
Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

Firmly Grounded without Foundations:
Yoder’s Patient (non-)Method

1 The Christian Life as Gift and Patience: · 23
Why Yoder Has Trouble with Method
Harry Huebner, Canadian Mennonite University

2 The Radical Christological Rhetoric of John Howard Yoder · 39
Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Bluffton College

3 Patience, Witness, and the Scattered Body of Christ:
Yoder and Virilio on Knowledge, Politics, and Speed · 56
Chris K. Huebner, Canadian Mennonite University/Duke University (Ph.D. candidate)

4 Yoder’s Patience and/with Derrida’s Differance · 75
Peter C. Blum, Hillsdale College

The Church, Power, and Exile:
Yoder’s (non-)Constantinianism

5 Yoder’s Idea of Constantinianism:
An Analytical Framework Toward Conversation · 89
Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

6 Constantinianism Before and After Nicea:
Issues in Restitutionist Historiography · 126
J. Alexander Sider, Duke University (Ph.D. candidate)

7 Yoder and the Jews:
Cosmopolitan Homelessness as Ecclesial Model · 145
Duane K. Friesen, Bethel College

8 On Exile:
Yoder, Said, and a Theology of Land and Return · 161
Alain Epp Weaver, Mennonite Central Committee (West Bank)

The Church, Ethics, and the Nations:
Yoder and Hauerwas

9 Share the House:
Yoder and Hauerwas Among the Nations · 187
Paul Doerksen, Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute

10 The Public Ethics of John Howard Yoder and Stanley Hauerwas:
Difference or Disagreement? · 205
Craig R. Hovey, Fuller Theological Seminary

Engaging Society:
Yoder, the State, and Institutions

11 The Christian Witness in the Earthly City:
John H. Yoder as Augustinian Interlocutor · 221
Gerald W. Schlabach, University of St. Thomas

12 "I came not to abolish the law but to fulfill it":
A Positive Theology of Law and Civil Institutions · 245
A. James Reimer, Conrad Grebel University College/Toronto School of Theology

Theology, Ethics, and the Bible:
Yoder Reading Scripture and Tradition

13 The Anabaptist and the Apostle:
John Howard Yoder as a Pauline Theologian · 274
Douglas Harink, The King’s University College, Edmonton

14 Smelting for Gold:
Jesus and Jubilee in John H. Yoder’s Politics of Jesus · 288
Willard M. Swartley, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary

15 Yoder’s Mischievous Contribution
to Mennonite Views on Anselmian Atonement · 303
Rachel Reesor Taylor, Bluffton College

16 Did Yoder Reduce Theology to Ethics? · 318
Thomas Finger, Center for the Study of Anabaptist Groups

Select Bibliography of the Writings of John Howard Yoder 340
The Index 343
The Contributors 353
The Editors 356


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