Comments on: Pacifism: John Howard Yoder, Part 2 http://oneinjesus.info/2009/10/pacifism-john-howard-yoder-part-2/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Cummings http://oneinjesus.info/2009/10/pacifism-john-howard-yoder-part-2/#comment-9242 Gary Cummings Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:11:10 +0000 http://oneinjesus.info/?p=6714#comment-9242 Jay, Yoder is a great one. Andre Trocme, a protestant minister who hid Jews at La Chambon, is another great writer for peace. His peaceful stance even toward Germans soldiers was very powerful. Philip Haile wrote a good book about Troce called LEST INNOCENT BLOOD BE SHED. In THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP, Bonhoeffer lays out the theological case for pacifism. It still speaks today, though Bonhoeffer later became imvolved in a plot to kill Hitler. Stanley Hauerwas is another theologian who is a lot like Yoder, but more like you and me. He is a Southerner who became a pacifist.. I recommend John Roth CHOOSING AGAINST WAR; David Bercot-THE KINGDOM THAT TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.Then there are the writings of E. Stanley Jones. He was a Methodist Missionary to India for many years, met Gandhi, and became a Christian pacifist. Jones has some very deep insights about war and peace in the light of the Sermon on the Mount. When I became a CO during the Vietnam War, there was nothing in the churches of Christ to help me in any way. NISBCO, an organixzation for CO's sent me some information. The first religious writer I came across against the war was Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest. He was and is a pacifist, and there is nothing passive about him and his brother Phillip. I met Daniel years later at a retreat and he is one of the most gentle and soft spoken people I have ever met. Jay,
Yoder is a great one. Andre Trocme, a protestant minister who hid Jews at La Chambon, is another great writer for peace. His peaceful stance even toward Germans soldiers was very powerful. Philip Haile wrote a good book about Troce called LEST INNOCENT BLOOD BE SHED.
In THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP, Bonhoeffer lays out the theological case for pacifism. It still speaks today, though Bonhoeffer later became imvolved in a plot to kill Hitler.
Stanley Hauerwas is another theologian who is a lot like Yoder, but more like you and me. He is a Southerner who became a pacifist..
I recommend John Roth CHOOSING AGAINST WAR; David Bercot-THE KINGDOM THAT TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.Then there are the writings of E. Stanley Jones. He was a Methodist Missionary to India for many years, met Gandhi, and became a Christian pacifist. Jones has some very deep insights about war and peace in the light of the Sermon on the Mount.
When I became a CO during the Vietnam War, there was nothing in the churches of Christ to help me in any way. NISBCO, an organixzation for CO's sent me some information. The first religious writer I came across against the war was Daniel Berrigan, a Jesuit priest. He was and is a pacifist, and there is nothing passive about him and his brother Phillip. I met Daniel years later at a retreat and he is one of the most gentle and soft spoken people I have ever met.

]]> By: desertwanderer http://oneinjesus.info/2009/10/pacifism-john-howard-yoder-part-2/#comment-9241 desertwanderer Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:26:41 +0000 http://oneinjesus.info/?p=6714#comment-9241 Jay, When was the last time we as Christians in America had to really suffer for our Savior? Maybe that is why we seldom consider it an option. As they say in the Army: "complacency kills" Steve Valentine Jay,
When was the last time we as Christians in America had to really suffer for our Savior?

Maybe that is why we seldom consider it an option.

As they say in the Army: "complacency kills"

Steve Valentine

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