Do you feel powerless to change the injustice at every level of society? Are you tired of answers that ignore the root causes of human suffering? This selection of writings by Eberhard Arnold, who left a career and the established church in order to live out the gospel, calls us to a completely different way.
Be warned: Arnold doesn’t approach discipleship as the route to some benign religious fulfillment, but as a revolution – a transformation that begins within and spreads outward to encompass every aspect of life. Arnold writes in the same tradition of radical obedience to the gospel as his contemporaries Barth and Bonhoeffer.
Зміст
A Word to the Reader
Introduction
This Crumbling World and God’s Coming Order
On the Edge of Catastrophe
The Kingdom Breaking In
Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount
The Kingdom of God
The New Order Fleshed Out
The Church
Unity and the Holy Spirit
Community
Repentance and Baptism
The Lord’s Supper
Worship
Mission
The Individual and the Community
The Body of Believers
Leadership and Service
Admonition and Forgiveness
The Individual in the Community
Marriage and Family
Education
Living Naturally
Peace and the Rule of God
Nonviolence and Refusal to Bear Arms
Attitude to Government
World Poverty and Suffering
This World’s Revolution and God’s Revolution
Про автора
Eberhard Arnold (1883–1935) studied theology, philosophy, and education and was widely sought as a speaker at student conferences and other gatherings. In 1920, leaving a promising career as a writer and the privileges of upper-middle- class life in Berlin, he moved with his wife and children to Sannerz, a small village in central Germany, where they founded a Christian community on the basis of the Sermon on the Mount.