Moral Memoranda from John Howard Yoder: Conversations on Law, Ethics and the Church Between a Mennonite Theologian and a Hoosier Lawyer

'Moral Memoranda from John Howard Yoder: Conversations on Law, Ethics and the Church between a Mennonite Theologian and a Hoosier Lawyer' compiles fifteen years of advice and comment on law and government in the United States from a leading theologian who was as prominent for the wisdom he offered to mainline Christians as he was a resource and teacher within his own Mennonite Church. This volume of letters, notes, and essays combines deep understanding of Professor Yoder's Anabaptist tradition with insightful, sometimes wry, observation on modern American Catholicism, and an occasionally caustic but more often open, inquiring interest in law, lawyers, and legal education.

Thomas L. Shaffer is Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and member of the Indiana Bar. He has taught law since 1963, at Notre Dame, Washington and Lee, the University of Maine, Boston College, U.C.L.A., and the University of Virginia. His seventeen books include five recent studies of American legal ethics with an emphasis on religious legal ethics. He and the late Professor Yoder served together at Notre Dame for most of both of their careers in teaching. Professor Shaffer is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Jewish Law Association, the National Lawyers Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, and the St. Joseph County (Indiana) Bar Association.