The Royal Priesthood

by Yoder, John Howard; Cartwright, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780802807076
• ISBN10: 0802807070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This collection of seventeen essays on themes ecclesiological and ecumenical is intended to demonstrate the substantial unity of Yoder's work over the past four decades. Many of these essays are often cited by researchers but have been, until now, nearly unobtainable. Three of these texts have never been published before. Editor Michael Cartwright has contributed a substantial introduction on the "Yoderian" project, and a select bibliography catalogs Yoder's writings - published and unpublished - on ecclesiology and ecumenism.

Author Biography

John Howard Yoder is professor of theology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Radical Reform, Radical Catholicity: John Howard Yoder's Vision of the Faithful Church	p. 1
Theological Perspectives
The Otherness of the Church	p. 53
A People in the World	p. 65
Why Ecclesiology Is Social Ethics: Gospel Ethics versus the Wider Wisdom	p. 102
To Serve Our God and to Rule the World	p. 127
Ecumenical Perspectives
Peace without Eschatology?	p. 143
Let the Church Be the Church	p. 168
Christ, the Light of the World	p. 181
Christ, the Hope of the World	p. 192
Ecumenical Responses
The Nature of the Unity We Seek: A Historic Free Church View	p. 221
The Free Church Ecumenical Style	p. 231
The Disavowal of Constantine: An Alternative Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue	p. 242
Another "Free Church" Perspective on Baptist Ecumenism	p. 262
A "Free Church" Perspective on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry	p. 277
The Imperative of Christian Unity	p. 289
Catholicity in Search of Location	p. 300
Radical Catholicity
Binding and Loosing	p. 323
Sacrament as Social Process: Christ the Transformer of Culture	p. 359
Selected Bibliography of John H. Yoder's Published and Unpublished Writings on Ecclesiology and Ecumenism	p. 374
Index	p. 383
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