Christoph Blumhardt and His Message
Author: Robert Lejeune
Publisher: The Plough Publishing House
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 0874869374
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"Jesus Is Victor!"
Author: Christian T. Collins Winn
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1630878294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIN 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.
The Gospel of God's Reign
Author: Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-11-06
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1630870773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo 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.
Action in Waiting
Author: Christoph Blumhardt
Publisher: The Plough Publishing House
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 0874869544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristoph 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.
The Company of the Preachers
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Publisher: Kregel Publications
Published:
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780825494345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work
Author: Dieter Ising
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1606085395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohann 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.
Church as Moral Community
Author: Michael D O'Neil
Publisher: Authentic Media Inc
Published: 2014-07-08
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 1780783213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book details the development and contours of Karl Barth's robust and lively vision of Christian and ecclesial life in the early years of his career. In this remarkable work Michael O'Neil investigates Karl Barth's theology in the turbulent and dynamic years of his nascent career, between 1915 and 1922. It focuses on the manner in which this great theologian construed Christian and ecclesial existence. The author argues that Karl Barth developed his theology with an explicit ecclesial and ethical motive in a deliberate attempt to shape the ethical life of the church in the troublesome context within which he lived and worked. O'Neil adopts a chronological and exegetical reading of Barth's work from the initial dispute with his liberal heritage (c.1915) until the publication of the second edition of his commentary on romans. Not only does this work contribute to a broader understanding of Barth's theology both in its early development, and with regard to his ecclesiology and ethics, it also provides a significant framework and material for contemporary ecclesial reflection on Christian identity and mission.
Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh
Author: Nathan Hitchcock
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0227901886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly Christian writers preferred to speak of the coming resurrection in the most bodily way possible: the resurrection of the flesh. Twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth took the same avenue, daring to speak of humans' eternal life in rather strikingcorporeal terms. In this study, Nathan Hitchcock pulls together Barth's doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, anticipating what the great thinker might have said more systematically in volume V of his 'Church Dogmatics'. Provocatively, Hitchcock goes on to argue that Barth's description of the resurrection - as eternalization, as manifestation, as incorporation - bears much in common with some unlikely programs and, contrary to its intention, jeopardizes the very contours of human life it hopes to preserve. In addition to contributing to Barth studies, this book offers a sober warning to theologians pursuing eschatology through notions of participation.
Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology
Author: Christian T Collins Winn
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 022790639X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theology of Karl Barth has often been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology, but for too long the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology contributes to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation, neither of whom can be rightly understood as preservers of Protestant orthodoxy. Rather, American evangelicalism is identified with the revivalist forms of Protestantism that arose in the post-Reformation era, while Barth is revisited as a theologian attuned both to divine and human agency. In the ensuing conversation, questions of orthodoxy are not eliminated but subordinated to a concern for the life of God and God's people. By offering an alternative to the dominant constraints, this book opens up new avenues for fruitful conversation on Barth and the future of evangelical theology.
The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life
Author: W. Vondey
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 113737599X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwelve scholars from the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical disciplines engage in a conversation on the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian life. The essays are held together by an enduring focus and concern to explore the relationship between the work of the Holy Spirit and Christian formation, discipleship, personal and social transformation. The book points toward the integration of theory and practice, theology and spirituality, and the mutual interest in fostering dialogue across disciplines and ecclesial traditions.
