Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1998
Publication Information
22 Legal Stud. F. 473 (1998)
Abstract
John Howard Yoder, prophet and theologian, died in his office at Notre Dame on December 30, 1997, the day after his seventieth birthday. Peter Steinfels's obituary in the New York Times of January 7, 1998, described my friend and colleague Yoder as "a Mennonite theologian whose writings on Christianity and politics had a major impact on contemporary Christian thinking about the church and social ethics." Steinfels did not describe Yoder's thought as jurisprudence; neither, for that matter, did Yoder. But there was (and is), throughout Yoder's scholarship, an implicit theology of law, a jurisprudence. A jurisprudence that is particularly noticeable in his last book, For the Nations (Eerdmans, 1997).
Recommended Citation
Thomas L. Shaffer,
The Jurisprudence of John Howard Yoder,
22 Legal Stud. F. 473 (1998).
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/116
Comments
Reprinted with permission of the Legal Studies Forum.