Yoder also directly tackled the racial and theological implications of the Homogeneous Unit Principle. “Building the church in a racist culture in southern Mississippi, you can only win people if you accept racism,” he argued. But “if you have accepted the institution of racism as the condition of your operating,” was such a church even Christian?100 Yoder argued that the message of the New Testament was that God broke down the wall of division between Jews and Gentiles. This was not a singular historical event; it was the essential ongoing ethical and theological principle of Christianity.
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