About the Book

Do you feel powerless to change the injustice at every level of society? Are you tired of answers that ignore the root causes of human suffering? This selection of writings by Eberhard Arnold, who left a career and the established church in order to live out the gospel, calls us to a completely different way.

Be warned: Arnold doesn’t approach discipleship as the route to some benign religious fulfillment, but as a revolution - a transformation that begins within and spreads outward to encompass every aspect of life. Arnold writes in the same tradition of radical obedience to the gospel as his contemporaries Barth and Bonhoeffer.

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Praise

Pacifist though he may be, Arnold takes no prisoners. His church has little in common with the accommodating Christianity that is so dominant in our culture. As you read you will find yourself thinking, “I have never seen a church like the one he describes.” That, of course, is exactly the point.

Stanley Hauerwas, from the Introduction

Intensely reverent and thought-provoking, God's Revolution is highly recommended for theology studies collections.

James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review

The undeniable power of Arnold's writing owes to the fact that there is no difference between what he professed to believe and the way he lived. It gives his words a resonance and depth, a right to be heard.

Juli Loesch Wiley, New Oxford Review

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of persons with Christ as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant...Arnold's vision incarnates just such a community.

Richard Foster, author, Celebration of Discipline

There is no better introduction to the thought and spirit of this twentieth-century prophet.

Robert Ellsberg, Orbis Books

Arnold's writing has all the simple, luminous, direct vision into things that I have come to associate with his name. It has the authentic ring of a truly evangelical Christianity and moves me deeply. It stirs to repentance and renewal. I am deeply grateful for it.

Thomas Merton

Tablet of Contents

This Crumbling World and God's Coming Order

The New Order Fleshed Out

The Individual and the Community

  • The Body of Believers
  • Leadership and Service
  • Admonition and Forgiveness
  • The Individual in the Community
  • Marriage and Family
  • Education
  • Living Naturally

Peace and the Rule of God

  • Nonviolence and the Refusal to Bear Arms
  • Attitude to Government
  • World Poverty and Suffering
  • This World's Revolution and God's Revolution