A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology

by John Howard Yoder, Christian E. Early (Editor), Ted Grimsrud (Editor)

In A Pacifist Way of Knowing: John Howard Yoder's Nonviolent Epistemology, editors Christian Early and Ted Grimsrud gather the scattered writings of Yoder on the theme of the relationship between gospel, peace, and human ways of knowing. In them, they find the beginnings of a pacifist theology of knowledge that rejects strategies of empire while at the same avoids a self-defeating relativism.

Genres: Philosophy

170 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2010

About the author

Yoder was a Christian theologian, ethicist, and Biblical scholar best known for his radical Christian pacifism, his mentoring of future theologians such as Stanley Hauerwas, his loyalty to his Mennonite faith, and his 1972 magnum opus, "The Politics of Jesus".