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What Would You Do?: A Serious Answer to a Standard Question - Softcover

Yoder, John Howard

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Synopsis

John Howard Yoder helps answer the age-old question, What would you do if someone was attacking your grandmother, husband, wife, daughter, or son?; Yoder provides a variety of responses to this classic question: his own thorough ethical analysis along with the answers given by other writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Dale Brown, and Dale Aukerman and a variety of real-life stories of people who have discovered alternative responses to violence.

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From the Back Cover

Mennonite theologian John H. Yoder explores the pros and cons of nonviolent response. Viewpoints on the subject and examples from life are included ranging from Dale Aukerman to Leo Tolstoy, from Joan Baez to Tom Skinner.

About the Author

John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) taught ethics and theology as a professor at Notre Dame University and Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary. He received his doctorate from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and was a member of the Mennonite Church in Elkhart, Indiana.

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