By John Howard Yoder
A typical in lots of schools and seminaries, Yoder makes a robust case for the Anabaptist view of Jesus radical critique of society in addition to for an severe, notwithstanding pacifistic involvement.
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The Politics of Jesus. Vicit Agnus noster, 2nd edition
A regular in lots of schools and seminaries, Yoder makes a powerful case for the Anabaptist view of Jesus radical critique of society in addition to for an extreme, notwithstanding pacifistic involvement.
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A few verses later Zechariah, as soon as his lips are loosened, proclaims as the meaning of the birth of John, "That we should be saved from our enemies, And from the hand of all who hate us; ... " This expectation is all the more clear when John himsdf spells it out: "Even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees; Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. . "2 Of course, John was wrong in what he was expecting, was he not? which Luke took over. To posit such a borrowing would make Luke's assumption of political meaning in the text all the more conscious.
A. T. Olmstead, }tsus in th~ Light of History (New York: Scribner, 1942), p. 148, identifies this massacre with one reported by Josephus (see below, p. 91). , rejects on linguistic grounds Cullmann's interpreration of "their sacrifices" as the Zealots' (human) victims, but he agrees, filling out with still greater detail, that the massacred Galileans were political enthusiasts in whom Pilate saw the menace of rebellion. Ethelbert Stauffer, ]tsus and His Story (New York: Knopf, 1959), p. 84, agrees.
I reject the use of this simpler label because of the injustice it does to the historical movement known by that name, which was creative and critical in social ethics. : Faith and Life, 1964), p. 84; and Dale Brown's article by the same title in the Covtnllnt Q1111rtnly. 25 (Feb. 1967), 12ft. " If the difference had been of that character, Luke would have had to begin his story differendy. There would have had to be some hint in these first three chapters to warn us of the impropriety of the hopes of Mary and Zechariah as well as of John.