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    Plough Books The Good Life Marriage
    Love Letters

    Love Letters


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    They were passionately in love, yet they rejected romance as the basis of their relationship, building instead on the promise of Jesus' words, "Seek first the kingdom of God." Circumstance (and scandalised parents) kept them separated for most of the next three years. But that separation bore its own fruit: an intense exchange of letters.


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    About The Book

    Everyone’s looking for true love, but few people seem willing to work at making it last. With separation and divorce so commonplace that most people see them as inevitable, it seems the very idea of marital commitment is fast becoming a foreign one. What’s gone wrong?

    On Good Friday 1907, in the German university town of Halle, a young couple sealed their secret engagement with a kiss – and a vow to follow God wherever he led them. They were passionately in love, yet they rejected romance as the basis of their relationship, building instead on the promise of Jesus’ words, “Seek first the kingdom of God.” Circumstance (and scandalised parents) kept them separated for most of the next three years. But that separation bore its own fruit: an intense exchange of letters.

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    About The Authors

    Eberhard Arnold

    Eberhard Arnold (1883–1935), a German theologian, was co-founder of the Bruderhof and the founding editor of Plough. Read More

    Emmy Arnold

    Emmy Arnold started the Bruderhof community movement with her husband, Eberhard Arnold, and her sister, Else von Hollander. Read More

    Acclaim

    • A rare find. It is a privilege to be invited into such an intimate conversation.

      Father Philip K. Eichner, S.M. Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

    • Here are letters of both immense intensity and the deepest intimacy, almost too sacred for publication. They witness to a deeply based love nurtured in the context of an absolute commitment to Christ.

      Prof. John Briggs, Oxford University

    • These inspiring letters interweave a profound love for Jesus Christ with a deep love between two young people, as well as an utterly transparent search to do God’s will.

      Prof. Lawrence S. Cunningham, The University of Notre Dame

    • More than love letters. They show how a man and a woman can nurture each other toward spiritual maturity.

      Tony Campolo, Eastern University

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    • For modern secular humanity these Love Letters of Eberhard and Emmy Arnold must seem from another planet! But for Christian believers these letters... Read More

      Review of Love Letters

      For modern secular humanity these Love Letters of Eberhard and Emmy Arnold must seem from another planet! But for Christian believers these letters are a powerful reminder of God’s transformation of ordinary human relationships into divine grace and the mystery of God’s love. Love Letters portrays the depth of human emotions that can be kindled by expressing through the written word the meaning and purpose of Christ’s love.
      With enthusiasm I commend reading these letters for one’s own spiritual growth. In so doing one will also gain a greater appreciation for the tremendous spiritual movement that renewed the Church universal at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. This renewal raised up a generation of young men and women completely dedicated to Christ and the evangelisation of the world in their generation. The love story of Eberhard and Emmy is a thrilling testimony of what complete commitment and obedience to Christ can do. Read it, pray about it, and your marriage will take on new life and joy!

    • It's a masterpiece and it's the most beautiful love letter that I have ever read. Oh how I pray that our youth will learn from this and then come... Read More

      Review of Love Letters

      It's a masterpiece and it's the most beautiful love letter that I have ever read. Oh how I pray that our youth will learn from this and then come back to the old path, I mean old school as they used to say. Things have really changed today and christian relationships is daily becoming horrible, scary and very painful making it difficult to know whom should we call a christian. The co-habitation, premarital sex and abortion. I just pray that God will help we youth and open our eyes to see, know and discern God's way.

    • The book is promoting peace around the world. If the family (husband and wife) can stay together then the world will be a better place for all.
    • Iam so glad I found this site. may the good Lord continue to bless you.

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    Table of Contents

    • Background
    • First Love
    • Baptism
    • Joy in the Lord
    • Testing
    • Changing Course
    • Separation
    • By Degrees
    • The Light of God
    • Langeoog
    • Misunderstandings
    • The Home Stretch

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