The War of the Lamb: The Ethics of Nonviolence and Peacemaking

John Howard Yoder taught at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary and was later professor of theology and ethics at the University of Notre Dame.

He is known especially for his influential book The Politics of Jesus.

Glen Stassen (Ph.D., Duke University) is Lewis B.

Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

Mark Thiessen Nation (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary) is professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Matt Hamsher is working toward his Ph.D.

in Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

Read more From the Back Cover John Howard Yoder was one of the major theologians of the late twentieth century.

He wrote faithfully and with theological depth, particularly on the ethics of nonviolence and peacemaking.

Before his death, Yoder planned the essays and structure of The War of the Lamb, which he intended to be his last work.

Now leading interpreters of Yoder bring that work to fruition.

Covering pacifism, just war theory, and just peacemaking theory, The War of the Lamb crystallizes Yoder's argument that his proposed ethics is not sectarian and a matter of withdrawal.

It also clearly argues that Christian just war and Christian pacifist traditions are basically compatible--and more specifically, that the Christian just war tradition itself presumes against all violence.