In this gripping biography, journalist Markus Baum presents
Eberhard Arnold's life (1883-1935) as a challenge to all of us to
reconsider our response to Jesus' command to "leave everything and
follow me".
Baum's account recreates a colorful slice of history, a time
when thousands of young men and women across Weimar Germany
rejected bourgeois mores and struck out on a different path.
Arnold, an aspiring young writer and speaker, was a driving force
behind this "Youth Movement". But he went further, leaving the
limelight, a comfortable lifestyle, and a promising career, to live
the answers he had found. He started a community based on Christ's
teachings and example. Arnold was able to unite a motley assortment
of workers, aristocrats, and students from diverse political and
religious persuasions under a shared vision of Christ's kingdom as
a living reality.
Against the Wind explores the forces that shaped Arnold's life
-- the early Church, the Anabaptists, the Salvation Army, Charles
Finney's Evangelical revival in America -- and his influence on
other spiritual leaders of his day -- Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, and
Martin Buber among them. It recounts his lonely stand against the
rise of Nazism, and presents his continuing legacy, the Bruderhof
community movement, which carries on his commitment to integrate
faith and social action so needed today.
Most of all, Against the Wind gives flesh, blood, and
personality to a man whose role in history has been obscured.
Arnold abhorred private property and institutional religion, hated
hypocrisy and embraced absolutes. Even during his lifetime he was
dubbed a "modern St. Francis". But he also struggled to find his
convictions and put theminto action. He chose to walk resolutely
against the prevailing winds, but not without difficulty and
disappointment.
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