John Howard Yoder was Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology and Teaching Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Among his numerous works are The Politics of Jesus, For the Nations: Essays Public and Evangelical, The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical, Nevertheless: Varieties of Religious Pacifism and When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just-War Thinking
New Testament Social Ethics
Speaker(s): John Howard Yoder
Date: 1982
Length: 23:11:33
Product ID: RGDL1209S
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Description
This series is a discussion of New Testament themes such as possessions, power, the enemy, sexuality, authority, decision-making in the community, problems in the history of interpretation and contemporary concerns. Lectures include:
- Orientation: The Issues
- God is for the Victim
- Classical Issues of Form
- The Nature of Ethical Discourse
- Hermeneutic Challenge
- Jesus in the Political Perspective
- Sample Sounding in the New Testament Guidance
- Apostolic Structural Thought
- Mammon and Sharing
- Constantine
- Dialogue and Democracy
- Violence and War
- Just War
- Back to Economics
- Sexuality
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