When troubled consciences find healing they become a force for
good. The conscience, our inner moral compass, is a sensitive
instrument meant to warn us against all that might endanger our
life and happiness. Many today despise or ignore the conscience,
calling its working unhealthy repression of natural urges, or
rejecting any certainty in the name of relativism. Others are
tormented by its accusations. In this little book, Arnold points
the way to complete healing and restoration of even the most
troubled conscience. When Christ's forgiveness sets the conscience
free and floods it with his live-renewing spirit, it becomes an
active force for good, giving us clarity in personal, social, and
political questions and leading us to peace, joy, justice, and
community. The Conscience is the second volume of five in Inner
Land: A Guide into the Heart of the Gospel. About Inner Land A
trusted guide into the inner realm where our spirits find strength
to master life and live for God. It is hard to exaggerate the
significance of Innerland, either for Eberhard Arnold or his
readers. It absorbed his energies off and on for most of his adult
life--from World War I, when he published the first chapter under
the title War: A Call to Inwardness, to 1935, the last year of his
life. Packed in metal boxes and buried at night for safekeeping
from the Nazis, who raided the author's study a year before his
death (and again a year after it), Innerland was not openly
critical of Hitler's regime. Nevertheless, it attacked the spirits
that animated German society: its murderous strains of racism and
bigotry, its heady nationalistic fervor, its mindless mass
hysteria, and its vulgar materialism. In this sense Innerland
stands as starkly opposed to the zeitgeist of our own day as to
that of the author's. At a glance, the focus of Innerland seems to
be the cultivation of the spiritual life as an end in itself.
Nothing could be more misleading. In fact, to Eberhard Arnold the
very thought of encouraging the sort of selfish solitude whereby
people seek their own private peace by shutting out the noise and
rush of public life around them is anathema. He writes in The Inner
Life:"These are times of distress. We cannot retreat, willfully
blind to the overwhelming urgency of the tasks pressing on society.
We cannot look for inner detachment in an inner and outer
isolation...The only justification for withdrawing into the inner
self to escape today's confusing, hectic whirl would be that
fruitfulness is enriched by it. It is a question of gaining within,
through unity with eternal powers, a strength of character ready to
be tested in the stream of the world." Innerland, then, calls us
not to passivity, but to action. It invites us to discover the
abundance of a life lived for God. It opens our eyes to the
possibilities of that "inner land of the invisible where our spirit
can find the roots of its strength and thus enable us to press on
to the mastery of life we are called to by God." Only there, says
Eberhard Arnold, can our life be placed under the illuminating
light of the eternal and seen for what it is. Only there will we
find the clarity of vision we need to win the daily battle that is
life, and the inner anchor without which we will lose our moorings.
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