Download or read book Pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt written by Friedrich Zündel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zundel's landmark biography, now available in English for the first time. The terrifying battle between the spiritual forces of good and evil described here, and the awakening that followed, catapulted Blumhardt's parish into the public eye and still draws seekers to it. Zundel's account is fascinating on a historical level, but it is also infused with enduring pastoral insights and spiritual wisdom. Here is an almost unbelievable account of one person's faith in the inbreaking of God's kingdom and its victory over powers that bind and divide humanity.
Download or read book Pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt written by Friedrich Zundel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zÿndel's landmark biography, now available in English for the first time. The terrifying battle between the spiritual forces of good and evil described here, and the awakening that followed, catapulted Blumhardt's parish into the public eye and still draws seekers to it. Zÿndel's account is fascinating on a historical level, but it is also infused with enduring pastoral insights and spiritual wisdom. Here is an almost unbelievable account of one person's faith in the inbreaking of God's kingdom and its victory over powers that bind and divide humanity.
Download or read book Johann Christoph Blumhardt written by Friedrich Zundel and published by Blumhardt Source. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zündel's landmark biography. The terrifying battle between the spiritual forces of good and evil described here, and the awakening that followed, catapulted Blumhardt's parish into the public eye and still draws seekers to it. Zündel's account is fascinating on a historical level, but it is also infused with enduring pastoral insights and spiritual wisdom. Here is an almost unbelievable account of one person's faith in the inbreaking of God's kingdom and its victory over powers that bind and divide humanity.
Download or read book Johann Christoph Blumhardt Life and Work written by Dieter Ising and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a pastoral counselor and theologian of hope. His theology and pastoral approach, shaped as they were by the awakening in his congregation and numerous incidents of faith healing, provoked earnest and lively debate, and the controversy continues today. Ising's work mines the original sources, the product of an interaction with Blumhardt's life and work that goes back many years. He has drawn a portrait that explores the shadows as well as its bright side. Readers are invited to enter fully into the nineteenth century, Blumhardt's century, yet are constantly reminded that the problems of that day have lost none of their currency within the altered mental horizons of today.
Download or read book Pastor Johann Christoph Blumhardt written by Friedrich Zündel and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zundel's landmark biography, now available in English for the first time. The terrifying battle between the spiritual forces of good and evil described here, and the awakening that followed, catapulted Blumhardt's parish into the public eye and still draws seekers to it. Zundel's account is fascinating on a historical level, but it is also infused with enduring pastoral insights and spiritual wisdom. Here is an almost unbelievable account of one person's faith in the inbreaking of God's kingdom and its victory over powers that bind and divide humanity. ""Still relevant for our time, Christoph Blumhardt was and is my spiritual father. I am extremely pleased that this series is coming to fruition. I congratulate the editors."" --Jurgen Moltmann ."" . . An impressive effort of considerable value."" --Bernard McGinn ""Today's church is dying for examples for what it means to be faithful. It is, therefore, a great and good thing that the collected works of the Blumhardts will now be made available. The Blumhardts not only saw what a faithful church might look like, they exemplified it in their wide-ranging writings and work. This series is a boon to the church."" --Stanly Hauerwas ""This project is an important venture . . . It is hard to imagine a more influential team upon Barth than the Blumhardts. They gave Barth a great vision of a lively, intruding God. . . Jesus is Victor!"" --William Willimon ""In plain and profound language, and rooted in their pastoral experience, the Blumhardts wrote with startling, deep conviction about the kingdom's social as well as its personal reality. Their words are all the more pertinent for us today. The Blumhardt Series is a major event for the witness and work of the church in the twenty-first century."" --Rodney Clapp ""Karl Barth once noted that German systematic theology missed out on the Blumhardts in a sleepy daze. One can only wonder how much was lost, including the vibrant spirituality, the progressive politics, and the strong sense of the reality of the work of God for which these men were known. Once again we need to be awakened from our slumbers, and the Blumhardts could be catalysts in this process, reminding us that theology and the church must be squarely located in the pressures and struggles of this world."" --Joerg Rieger Christian T. Collins Winn (PhD, Drew University) is Assistant Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, and a licensed minister in the American Baptist Church (USA). He is author of Jesus is Victor! The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth (Pickwick Publications, 2008). Charles E. Moore is a member of Church Communities International, an intentional community movement based on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. He is an editor and author for Plough Publishing. His works include Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard, Action in Waiting: Sermons by Christoph Blumhardt, and Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings.
Download or read book Pastor Blumhardt written by Russell Kelso Carter and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Awakening written by Friedrich Zündel and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 1999 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young Lutheran pastor named Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) interceded for a tormented woman in his village, he got more than he reckoned for. "We've seen enough of what the Devil can do", he told her. "Now let us see what God can do". But would one man's simple faith hold out against the onslaught of occult forces that began to reveal themselves? Two years later the enemy, defeated, howled, "Jesus is the victor!" and fled. Nothing would ever be the same in Mottlingen, Blumhardt's rural parish in the Black Forest. The palpable nearness of God -- and the reality of the great cosmic battle between good and evil -- was in many ways reminiscent of apostolic times. Sick and disabled people were healed, mental illness vanished, and stolen goods were returned. Murders were even solved, and broken marriages restored. Marked by the transformation of lives and relationships, yet devoid of exaggerated emotionalism and religiosity, the revival spread like a quiet tide, beyond the Black Forest, throughout Germany, and even farther, despite the efforts of a cynical press and Blumhardt's nervous ecclesiastical superiors. To those who despair over the spiritual poverty of contemporary Christianity, this book offers quiet but bold assurance that God can work as powerfully in our time as he did in his.
Download or read book Thy Kingdom Come written by Vernard Eller and published by W Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some two hundred selections give evidence of a lifetime of intensive and fruitful struggle with the great issues of faith: redemption, the kingdom of God, revelation, pacifism, and the suffering of humanity.
Download or read book Jesus Is Victor written by Christian T. Collins Winn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS INNOVATIVE WORK, Christian T. Collins Winn examines the role played by the Pietist pastors Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919) in the development of Karl Barth's theology. The disparate theological themes and dynamics of the two Blumhardts were crystallized in their eschatology, and Collins Winn argues that as early as 1916 Barth had appropriated this "Blumhardtian eschatological deposit" in ways fundamental to his own theological development. Against the grain of current Barth scholarship, this book establishes how the theology of the Blumhardts, though critically reconstructed, was not merely an episodic influence on Barth's work. Instead, the Blumhardts had a complex and enduring impact on Barth, such that their imprint can be detected even in the mature theology of his Church Dogmatics. In treading new ground into Barth's theological formation, Jesus Is Victor! represents an important contribution to the field of Barth studies.
Download or read book The God who Heals written by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published under title: Thy will be done: sickness, faith, and the God who heals: Rifton, NY: Plough Pub. House, c2011.
Download or read book Christoph Blumhardt and His Message written by Robert Lejeune and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 1963 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Make Way for the Spirit written by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt and published by Blumhardt Source. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blumhardts, father and son, two witnesses to the power of the Holy Spirit, heralds of the breaking in of God_s kingdom here on earth. And almost inseparable today, so completely did the son take up his famous father_s mantle and absorb his vision. But God marches forward in history, and whoever stands still is in danger of losing God. Here the son, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, writes as nowhere else about his father, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, clarifying the unity and continuity in their thought, but also his own painful though necessary points of departure. In particular, he takes a critical look at the role of faith healing, exorcism, and spiritual warfare in _The Awakening_ that thrust his father into the limelight, as well as his father_s reluctance to step beyond the walls of the Christianity he inherited. God wants to renew the whole world, to pour out his Spirit on humankind again, and around the world Christians are praying for renewal and revival. Are we standing in the way? Blumhardt calls out obstacles or _false crutches_ that he believes thwarted the movement of the Spirit in his father_s time and his own, all of which are still with us today: a focus on piety and personal salvation, misconceptions about mission and evangelism, and the institutional church with its human structures, dogmas, and traditions. If the religion of our churches is too small for God, are we ready to step outside and live in accordance with his great future?
Download or read book Lift Thine Eyes written by Christoph Blumhardt and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of prayers by Christoph Blumhardt, now in its fourth edition, is one of the few daily devotionals especially intended for use in the evening. Blumhardt's words bespeak a certainty in God's nearness and in his approaching kingdom.
Download or read book Action in Waiting written by Christoph Blumhardt and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 1998 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christoph Blumhardt's Action in Waiting was first published over a century ago, but his teaching on the kingdom of God, which influenced such luminaries as Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is as pertinent today as it was to his own generation.
Download or read book Why Children Matter written by Johann Christoph Arnold and published by The Plough Publishing House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising a child has never been more challenging. If you ever doubt yourself or wonder if it is worth the heartache, read this little book. If you worry that your family will not weather life's storms or if you fear losing your children to the prevailing culture, read it again. Why Children Matter offers biblical wisdom and commonsense advice on how to hold a family together and raise children with character. Johann Christoph Arnold, a father, grandfather and pastor, has written eleven books, including three on parenting and children's education. As the fabric of family and society is torn apart, this book offers up concrete steps to encourage parents faced with difficult child-rearing decisions.
Download or read book Jesus is Victor written by Johann Christoph Blumhardt and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel of God s Reign written by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No doubt, it is common to hear Christians today declaring their allegiance to God's kingdom. But what does this actually entail, and what difference does it make? In his characteristically provocative and daring way, Christoph Blumhardt articulates a vision of God's kingdom that turns much of our understanding of modern Christianity upside-down. In the present volume, available in English for the first time, Blumhardt leads readers to look at the gospel anew, challenging us to follow Jesus in a way that makes God's reign a reality, here and now. Bypassing vague notions of spirituality, as well as transcending simplistic approaches to faith, Blumhardt inspires us to actually live under the rule and reign of God.
