A wild patience has taken me this far6/26/2023 These two directional power movements help explain, contra his challengers, the consistency of Yoder’s pacifism, free church ecclesiology, and ecumenism. For Yoder, theology is a grammar that seeks to describe and differentiate between two “directional” power movements: repentance of (turning away from) Constantinian, worldly powers, and submission to (yielding and turning towards) Jesus’s service Lordship. Assuming a plurivocal model of power when reading Yoder helps us to understand his project on its own terms. Yoder must be read in light of this logic because he builds a cosmological model and corresponding theological grammar on the conviction that “power” is best described plurivocally, rather than univocally. Responses to these challenges have not addressed the logic that undergirds them, a logic concluding that Yoder's free church ecclesiology requires the correction of Hauerwas's "high church Mennonitism." The core of Yoder’s free church ecclesiological framework is what I describe as the logic of Jesus’s service power. John Yoder's ecclesiology has received a host of challenges, all of which focus on various facets of its free church nature and praxis.
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