Category Archives: Yoder

Writers who influenced me

Posted on November 11, 2010 by

Sally Coleman has tagged me on Facebook in one of those meme things – in this case, listing fifteen authors who have influenced you.  As it happens I don’t do memes – there are so many of them floating around … Continue reading →

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Kim Fabricius explains: ‘Why I Am a Shalomite’

Posted on November 8, 2009 by

My readers (all six of them) may have noticed that I’m not feeling particularly motivated about blogging lately. However, I did appreciate Kim Fabricius’ fine sermon ‘Why I Am a Shalomite’. Here are a couple of excerpts: I want to … Continue reading →

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John Howard Yoder: Preface to Theology

Posted on May 16, 2008 by

John Howard Yoder: Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method (Grand Rapids, Brazos Press, 2002). This book has been sitting on my bookshelf unread since I returned from sabbatical leave last summer. My regular readers will know that I have … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #22: Book Report

Posted on July 9, 2007 by

John Howard Yoder The Fulness of Christ In this controversial book John Howard Yoder weighs in on what he calls ‘the model of the professional religionist’: the one professional minister who is identified as ‘clergy’ and in distinction to whom … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #21: Book Report

Posted on July 9, 2007 by

John Howard Yoder: He Came Preaching Peace This small (143 pages) book is a collection of twelve addresses (the author refers to them as ‘Bible lectures’ rather than sermons) on the subject of Christian pacifism, delivered in various settings by … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #20: Book Review

Posted on July 5, 2007 by

John Howard Yoder: For the Nations: Essays Public and Evangelical Like many of John Yoder’s larger books, this one is difficult to summarise as a unit because it is a collection of addresses, given at different times and in different … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report Number 19

Posted on June 30, 2007 by

John Howard Yoder: The Royal Priesthood – ‘part the fourth’… I have now finished the remaining essays in John Howard Yoder’s The Royal Priesthood. I don’t intend to summarise all of them as some are repetitive (almost inevitable in a … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #18: More Essay Reports

Posted on June 26, 2007 by

Yoderian Essays Part 3 Here are my summaries of two more of the essays in John Howard Yoder’s book The Royal Priesthood, along with a personal reflection on one issue at the end. ‘Let the Church be the Church’. In … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #16: Essay Reviews

Posted on June 25, 2007 by

More Yoderian Essay Summaries I have now read five of the essays in John Howard Yoder’s book The Royal Priesthood. The first essay, ‘The Otherness of the Church’, I reviewed in my previous sabbatical report. The second essay, ‘A People … Continue reading →

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Sabbatical Report #15: Essay Review

Posted on June 22, 2007 by

John Howard Yoder: ‘The Otherness of the Church’ in The Royal Priesthood My current study book is a collection of essays by John Howard Yoder on the mission and nature of the church, first published in 1994 and entitled The … Continue reading →

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