About the Book

“A comfortable Christianity will never change the world…” – Christoph Blumhardt

Ours is a time of intense searching. We hunger for a faith strong enough to transform us and our world. With unabashed fervor, Christoph Blumhardt burns away the chaff of modern piety. He proclaims a message that still today, a full century after he first voiced it, has power to stir up the embers of a dying faith. In his quest to get to the essentials, he has little patience for religious trappings. And yet his passion encourages, rather than intimidates. Blumhardt’s “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.

Softcover, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN: 978-0874869545

Praise

The life and writings of Christoph Blumhardt are adrenaline for faltering and compromised followers of Jesus.

Eugene H. Peterson, author, Subversive Spirituality

Blumhardt does something very few of us can do: represent God’s cause in the world yet not wage war on the world, love the world and yet be completely faithful to God.

Karl Barth

Pulse-quickening…Blumhardt reminds us that personal peace is merely the wrapping paper of a more magnificent gift: confidence in the coming of God’s kingdom.

Rodney Clapp

Who else, besides Barth, is so unrelenting in their attack on religion? Yet who else uses the language of faith so straightforwardly and without apology?

Stanley Hauerwas, co-author, Resident Aliens