Eberhard Arnold

EBERHARD ARNOLD Writings Selected with an Introduction by Johann Christoph Arnold Please share a link to this e-book with your friends. Feel free to post and share links to this e-book, or you may e-mail or print this book in its entirety or in part, but please do not alter it in any way, and please do not post or offer copies of this e-book for download on another website or through another Internet-based download service. If you wish to make multiple hard copies for wider distribution, or to reprint portions in a newsletter or periodical, please observe the following restrictions: • You may not reproduce it for commercial gain. • You must include this credit line: “Copyright 2011 by The Plough Publishing House. Used with permission.” This e-book is a publication of The Plough Publishing House, Rifton, NY 12471 USA (www.plough.com) and Robertsbridge, East Sussex, TN32 5DR, UK (www.ploughbooks.co.uk) Copyright © 2011 by Plough Publishing House Rifton, NY 12471 USA Contents Introduction 7 1 GOD’S REVOLUTION 32 A Call to the Inner Life 32 God’s Revolution 38 Against Bloodshed and Violence 44 2 THE NEW JUSTICE 53 Not a New Law 53 Away from Compromise and Shadow 63 God’s Kingdom - Future and Present 70 3 BECOMING HUMAN 80 The Better Righteousness 81 The Conscience 84 4 UNLESS YOU BECOME A CHILD 93 E B E R H A R D A R N O L D - W R I T I N G S S E L E C T E D 5 LOVE DIVINE AND LOVE HUMAN 98 Responsibility, Desire, and Love 108 The New Morality 111 6 LOVE IS WORK 115 Community as Work 117 Jesus and the Future State 122 7 FROM ISOLATION TO COMMUNITY 128 Consciousness and Community 129 From Private Property to community 145 Why We Live in Community 153 8 THE FIGHT AGAINST MAMMON 172 God or Mammon 172 The Fight Against Mammon 175 9 GOD WITH US 182 The Experience of God 183 The Spirit of the Risen One 190 The Living Word 194 ... - tailieumienphi.vn