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.
John Howard Yoder
Denigrating "social activist churches" was central to Hauerwas and Willimon's agenda. Yet Resident Aliens revived social gospel arguments.
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.