The Individual and World Need

The Individual and World Need by Eberhard 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 The Individual and World Need is a translation of "Der Einzige und die Weltnot," which appeared serially in Die Wegwarte, a periodical of the Eberhard Arnold Verlag, between October 1927 and February 1928. The cover graphics "Bread!" and "Germany`s Children are Hungry!" are lithographs by Käthe Kollwitz (1924) from the Rosenwald Collection. © 1992 by the National Gallery of Art, Reproduced with permission. PREFACE It is depressing that so much of what Eberhard Arnold wrote is still valid now. His essential diagnosis of what is wrong in the world—frag-mentation, alienation, lust for power, wealth, and possessions—all these represent a falling away from the whole, a falling away from God. The agony he has us confront is so grim, it could lead one to despair. But instead he faces despair head on, grapples with it, and emerges writing about joy. How is this possible? Only because his faith is rooted in God and Christ. He sees God as love and community, as the expression of organic wholeness and dynamic, harmonious interaction— a theme he develops in the first part of his essay. It is his commitment to this faith that sustains him in the light of the horrors he describes. What is important about Arnold’s thinking is that he goes beyond the salvation of the individual. ... - tailieumienphi.vn