Tobas Winright

The Heterodox Yoder

Theology

“[S]ince his death, the swell of interest in John Howard Yoder's contributions to Christian ethics--as seen in the many constructive appropriations of his work--has shown no signs of dissipating. Dispersion, however, is finally surfacing with Paul Martens' rather unorthodox reading of Yoder. . . . By carefully identifying and critically examining in Yoder's corpus a trajectory toward practices and politics and away from beliefs and creeds, Martens offers a provocative-and I think helpful-argument that should stimulate and inform future waves of scholarship about or indebted to Yoder.”