Hauerwas on Reading John Howard Yoder

I am in the midst of reading Stanley Hauerwas' memoir, Hannah's Child. As you might expect, it is superb. I especially enjoyed his reflections of John Howard Yoder; here is a quote:

"I was particularly struck by Yoder's Concern pamphlet 'Peace without Eschatology?' I began to understand that 'pacifism' is not a position that you might adopt after you get your Christology right. Yoder forced me to recognize that nonviolence is not a recommendation, an ideal, that Jesus suggested we might try to live up to. Rather, nonviolence is constitutive of God's refusal to redeem coercively. The crucifixion is 'the politics of Jesus'" (118).