Original Revolution: Essays on Christian Pacifism
- ISBN-10
- 083611812X
- ISBN-13
- 9780836118124
- Category
- Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-10-13
- Publisher
- MennoMedia
- Author
- John Howard Yoder
Description
Jesus created around himself a voluntary society that was counter to everything his society knew or expected. Jesus gave his members a new way to deal with offenders, with violence, with money, with leadership, with a corrupt society. He gave them a new pattern of relationships between man and woman, and an enlarged understanding of what it means to be human.
This is the original revolution: the creation of a distinct community with its alternate set of values and its coherent way of incarnating them. Such a group is not only a novelty, but is also, if lived faithfully, the most powerful tool of social change.
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