Real Christian Fellowship: 3 (Yoder for Everyone) - Softcover

Yoder, John Howard

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9780836198621: Real Christian Fellowship: 3 (Yoder for Everyone)

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ISBN 10: 083619862X ISBN 13: 9780836198621

Publisher: Herald Press, 2014

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Real Christian Fellowship is about more than socializing with people who share common interests. True fellowship among believers breaks down walls of race, gender, ability, and social status. In this book, John Howard Yoder plums the depths of congregational life as God intended it to be. In doing so, he invites us to turn our world upside down so that we may be right side up in God's upside-down kingdom. For many believers, the practices of the Christian community have become stale. In this volume, Yoder infuses fresh air into familiar practices neither by retrieving older liturgical forms, which is trendy for some, nor by conforming to the latest cravings of the ever-changing market, which is trendy for others. Rather, Yoder plumbs the Bible to understand church practices in ways that are sure to spur readers on to a more intense search for faithfulness, fellowship, and witness. Book 3 of the Yoder For Everyone Series. 210 Pages.

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Review:

"Many years after his death, John Howard Yoder's vision of Christian community remains timely, poignant and insightful. Real Christian Fellowship, which makes Yoder's writings on community available to a broader audience, is an essential book as we seek to cultivate deeper and more faithful churches amidst the individualism and consumerism of our times."

--C. Christopher Smith "Reviews "

"One of the greatest Christian theologians of all time made accessible to folks who don't use words like eschatology and hermeneutics. This series is a gift to the world, and hopefully it will help us build a better one."

--Shane Claiborne "Reviews "

"This book is full of wonderful surprises--teachings by John Yoder that are quite new to us, who thought we knew his work well. Many thanks to the editors who faithfully and effectively gathered these materials together!"

--Marva J. Dawn "Reviews "

About the Author:

John Howard Yoder (1927-97) taught ethics and theology as a professor at Notre Dame University and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and was perhaps the most well-known Mennonite theologian in the twentieth century. Widely sought around the world as a theological educator, ethicist, and interpreter of biblical pacifism, he is best known for his study on The Politics of Jesus. Yoder is also remembered for his long-term sexual harassment and abuse of women. Click here for more on Herald Press and John Howard Yoder.

John C. Nugent (PhD) is Professor of Old Testament at Great Lakes Christian College. In addition to serving as head editor of the Yoder for Everyone series, he is the author of The Politics of Yahweh (Cascade Books, 2011) and the editor of The End of Sacrifice (Herald Press, 2011) and Radical Ecumenicity (ACU Press, 2010). John also coordinates the John Howard Yoder Indexing Project, serves as a consulting editor for the Stone-Campbell Journal, and writes Bible lesson commentaries for Standard Publishing. His website is www.walkandword.com.

Branson L. Parler (PhD, Calvin Theological Seminary) is associate professor of theological studies at Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Branson is the author of Things Hold Together: John Howard Yoder's Trinitarian Theology of Culture (Herald Press, 2012). He is a also co-editor of the Yoder for Everyone series and works on the John Howard Yoder Index Project (www.yoderindex.com). In addition, he writes a regular column for ThinkChristian, a digital magazine. His website is www.bransonparler.com.

Heather L. Bunce is an adjunct professor at Great Lakes Christian College in Delta Township, Michigan, where she teaches classes in Old Testament and Hebrew. She earned a Master's degree in Theological Studies from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart Indiana. She currently lives in Lansing Michigan with her family.