John Howard: 207 books
Nevertheless
The Varieties and Shortcomings of Religious Pacifism
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
John Howard Yoder's classic book first published in 1971, includes a treatment of Jewish pacifism, bibliographies, an index, and three new appendixes: Speaking Truth to Power, Quaker Political Witness; The Spectrum of Nonpacifist Postures; and Nonviolent National Defense Alternatives. Yoder points...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
John Howard Yoder was one of the most important thinkers on just war and pacifism in the late twentieth century. This newly compiled collection of Yoder's lectures and writings on these issues describes, analyzes, and evaluates various patterns of thought and practice in Western Christian history....
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
John Howard Yoder went to Europe after the Second World War as a young volunteer. Yoder worked as an aide in a children's home in Elsace, France and completed his doctorate under Karl Barth in Basel, Switzerland. Because of his incomparably clear and sharp thinking he quickly became one of the most...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Of very few people can it be legitimately said that their work fundamentally reconfigured the landscape of two theological disciplines. But if there is anyone in recent memory who would be worthy of such an accolade, it is John Howard Yoder. The two disciplines are, of course, theological ethics and...
Revolutionary Christianity
The 1966 South American Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The ambitious and accessible essays collected in this volume were presented by John Howard Yoder during an extensive visit to South America in 1966. Reflecting and also subverting the acknowledged faddish attempt to address the revolutionary nature of Christianity, these lectures provide an illuminating...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
A series of inter-related short stories, set in a small Mexican fishing village, Bahia de los angeles--a real place fronting the Sea of Cortez on the east coast of Baja California, about 350 miles as the heron flies from the USA border. As the village depends upon American tourists for its income,...
by John Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
John Howard lived in Chicago and in the San Francisco Bay Area, two areas with enthusiastic football fans. While teaching history, his love for sports and an avid season ticket holder led him to spend several years coaching basketball and football. Like many fans he thought bad calls changed the outcome...
Far East, Down South
Asians in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
In sharp contrast to the “melting pot” reputation of the United States, the American South—with its history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement—has been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant,...
Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Growth, Accomplishments, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
Chartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university’s founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major...
The First Great Awakening
Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and...
by John Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
“Rock My World,” is a Rock & Roll memoir spanning 1980 to 1986. It's the unexpected personal journey of a concert merchandiser that started when the author was twenty three years old and how he found self-belief, dared to dream on a monumental scale and made it flourish into reality, rising to the...
by John Howard Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
No less a critic than Clifton Fadiman called The Devil Rides Outside a "staggering novel." The first novel of John H. Griffin, it written during the author’s decade of blindness following an injury suffered during the closing days of World War II. As Time Magazine described it, The Devil...
The Healthiest People on Earth
Your Guide to Living 10 Years Longer with Adventist Family Secrets and Plant-Based Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
John is the great-great-grandson of Seventh-day Adventist founder and prophet Ellen G. White
Outreach to Adventist community
Outreach to health/vegetarian communities
Promotion through BenBella Vegan's vegetarian/plant-based connections
The five blue zones are as follows:
The Italian island...
Black Like Me
The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006
This American classic has been corrected from the original manuscripts and indexed, featuring historic photographs and an extensive biographical afterword.