Yoder on Mystery
Continuing the “mystery” theme I’ve been thinking on for the past few days, consider this quote from John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus, writing on Ephesians 3. For what it’s worth:
Here the apostle makes claims to a knowledge and to a ministry that is not merely on the level of the other apostles but unique among the apostles. It is a particular grace which was given just to him to steward for the churches (Eph. 3:2), a “mystery” which was made known to him (3:3). “Mystery” is to be understood not as a spooky secret forever hidden from view, but rather as the strategic purpose of God, which was not widely known until the point of its execution. (218)
