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The Priestly Kingdom - Social Ethics as Gospel (Paperback)
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The Priestly Kingdom - Social Ethics as Gospel (Paperback)
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In this volume of essays John Howard Yoder projects a vision of
Christian social ethics rooted in historical community and
illuminated by scripture. Drawing upon scriptural accounts of the
early church, he demonstrates the Christian community's constant
need for reform and change. Yoder first examines the scriptural and
theoretical foundations of Christian social ethics. While
personally committed to the "radical reformation" tradition, he
eschews "denominational" categorization and addresses Christians in
general. The status of Christian community, he argues, cannot be
separated from the doctrinal content of beliefs and the moral
understanding of discipleship. As a result, the Christian's
voluntary commitment to a particular community, as distinct from
secular society, offers him valuable resources for practical moral
reasoning. From a historical perspective, Yoder reviews the efforts
of sixteenth-century radical (or Anabaptist) reformers to return to
the fundamental ethical standards of the New Testament, and to
disengage the community, as a biblically rooted call to faith that
does not imply withdrawal from the pluralistic world. Rather,
radical commitment to Christianity strengthens and renews the
authentic human interests and values of the whole society. His
analyses of democracy and of civil religion illustrate how
Christianity must challenge and embrace the wider world.
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