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Action in Waiting

By Christoph Blumhardt

Book information

Publisher
Plough Publishing House
Year
2011
ISBN
0874869544, 9780874869545
LCC
BX8080.B614 A25 1998
Open Library ID
OL355594M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
726 kB (743377 bytes)
Edition
Revised
Pages
253\223
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Given the number of people who've been "saved", you'd think the world was becoming a brighter place. It could be, too, if more people would grasp the joy of losing themselves in service to God and each other. People like Christoph Blumhardt, who, in his quest to get to the essentials of faith, burns away the religious trappings of modern piety like so much chaff. Blumhardt writes with unabashed fervour, but his passion encourages rather than intimidates. His witness influenced theological giants like Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth. But Action in Waiting is not theology; it is too blunt, too earthy, too real. Its "active expectation" of God's kingdom shows us that the object of our hope is not relegated to some afterlife. Today, in our world, it can come into its own - if only we are ready.

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