John Howard Yoder: Reading History Doxologically

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"To read history doxologically means that the criterion most apt for validating a disposition, a decision, an action, is not the predictable success before it but the resurrection behind it, not manipulation but praise. Hope is not a reflex rebounding from defeat but a reflection of theophany."

-- John Howard Yoder, “To Serve Our God and to Rule the World” in The Royal Priesthood: Essays Ecclesiological and Ecumenical