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The opportunity Stanley Hauerwas missed
Heirs to John Howard Yoder's legacy have to grapple with his theology in light of his sexual abuse. Hauerwas’s recent response isn’t enough.
by Janna L. Hunter-Bowman
We gather that some of our readers still don't want to talk Christology with us. But it's because of Jesus that the church has trouble in the world.
by Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon
Denigrating "social activist churches" was central to Hauerwas and Willimon's agenda. Yet Resident Aliens revived social gospel arguments.
by Gary Dorrien
The people to whom John Howard Yoder was accountable struggled to discipline him—and failed to deal adequately with his victims' pain.
Yoder defined violence in terms of violating someone's dignity. This sounds ready made as a description of his own abusive behavior.
by David Cramer, Jenny Howell, Paul Martens, and Jonathan Tran
reviewed by Alain Epp Weaver