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Christoph Blumhardt

Burden of a legacy: A famous pastor's son discusses the burden of his father's legacy. Of particular interest to pastors' and missionaries' kids.

Lead title for the launch of the Blumhardt Source Series.

A famous duo: The younger Blumhardt clarifies his views on his father and where they diverged. Scholarship has often conflated the two.

From pietism to democratic socialism, describes the evolution of Blumhardt's thought, which would impact twentieth-century theology.

Influential theologian: Blumhardt had a strong influence on Karl Barth, Eberhard Arnold, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jurgen Moltmann, and others.

Plough Publishing House

The Blumhardt Source Series

Make Way for the Spirit: My father's battle and mine

Johann Christoph Blumhardt

Don't wait for the end times--we can experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the presence of God's future already now.

If you want to pick a theological fight with someone, enter into a discussion about eschatology. You'll encounter a kaleidoscope of opinions and, more likely than not, outright disagreement. On one end of the spectrum there are the doomsday naysayers who, in warning us to get ready for the end, have determined in advance the very signs of Christ's return. On the other end are those who idealize God's future to such an extent that it has virtually no relevance for faith.

Enter Johann Christoph Blumhardt. Blumhardt cuts through both end-time speculation and eschatological indifference with a passionate plea to make room, here and now, for God's coming kingdom. Blumhardt's whole approach toward "last things" is so out of the ordinary that it fills one with an authentic exhilaration that defies the staid confines of conventional Christianity. These sermons articulate not just a theology of hope but are refreshing, compelling insights into the prophetic vision of the great outpouring of the Spirit upon all flesh. With confidence and holy expectation, Blumhardt reminds us that we can experience now, and even hasten on, the presence of God's future. We need only pray for it, watch for it, and live for it. It is at hand!

Gospel Sermons: On Faith, the Holy Spirit, and the Coming Kingdom

Friedrich Zündel

The definitive biography of a renowned German pastor. 

Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zündel's landmark biography. The terrifying battle between the spiritual forces of good and evil described here, and the awakening that followed, catapulted Blumhardt's parish into the public eye and still draws seekers to it. Zündel's account is fascinating on a historical level, but it is also infused with enduring pastoral insights and spiritual wisdom. Here is an almost unbelievable account of one person's faith in the inbreaking of God's kingdom and its victory over powers that bind and divide humanity.

Johann Christoph Blumhardt: A Biography