For the Nations: Essays Public & Evangelical by John Howard Yoder Eerdmans / 1997 / Softcover

Maybe you have read Yoder's classic The Politics of Jesus, and you are wondering what to do with the giant sized "can of worms" that it opened; For the Nations is your logical next step. Here are addressed the core convictional issues faced by the church attempting to be faithful witnesses in the midst of today's culture. This is what many call "biblical realism" at its very best. If nothing else, chapter eight entitled "The Original Revolution", which is a reprint of chapter one of an early work of Yoder by that name, is well worth the price of the whole book. Yoder's wisdom is the scandalous wisdom of the cross, reading him is humbling and encouraging simultaneously.