Friday, August 5, 2016

Review: God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom

God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom God's Revolution: Justice, Community, and the Coming Kingdom by Eberhard Arnold
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Approach with caution. A manifesto that covers all aspects of the Christian life– a 3rd way in community and extreme simplicity, subversive to society and the norms the Western world perpetuates like eternal clockwork. This collection of vignettes written by Eberhard Arnold spanning the years of 1917 to 1933, come together as a coherent and complete exoneration for Christian community lived in what to many is conceived as exclusive, separatist, pretentious, and extreme. The only extremity here is Jesus' teachings clearly expressed with important Biblical reference and, apparently lived out at the Bruderhof international community that continues to thrive in 23 communities in the world today. It leaves the reader with interest in visiting or spending some time amongst one of the communities.

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