The Original Revolution

by John Howard Yoder

Overview

Jesus created around himself a voluntary society that was counter to everything his society knew or expected. Jesus gave his members a new way to deal with offenders, with violence, with money, with leadership, with a corrupt society. He gave them a new pattern of relationships between man and woman, and an enlarged understanding of what it means to be human.

This is the original revolution: the creation of a distinct community with its alternate set of values and its coherent way of incarnating them. Such a group is not only a novelty, but is also, if lived faithfully, the most powerful tool of social change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836118124
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	10/13/2003
Series:	Christian Peace Shelf Series
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.43(d)

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Endorsement

"John Howard Yoder simply cannot be understood without reading the essays collected in The Original Revolution. Yoder would obviously go on to have much to say, but everything he had to say was initially intimated in this extremely important book. Indeed, Chapter Three (which was originally entitled "Peace Without Eschatology?") may well be the most important single essay Yoder ever wrote. We are in debt to Herald Press for keeping this important book in print." —Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University