EBERHARD ARNOLD
Writings Selected
with an Introduction
by Johann Christoph Arnold
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Contents
Introduction
7
1 GOD’S REVOLUTION
32
A Call to the Inner Life
32
God’s Revolution
38
Against Bloodshed and Violence
44
2 THE NEW JUSTICE
53
Not a New Law
53
Away from Compromise and Shadow 63
God’s Kingdom - Future and Present
70
3 BECOMING HUMAN
80
The Better Righteousness
81
The Conscience
84
4 UNLESS YOU BECOME A CHILD
93
E B E R H A R D A R N O L D
- W R I T I N G S S E L E C T E D
W W W . E B E R H A R D A R N O L D . C O M
5 LOVE DIVINE AND LOVE HUMAN
98
Responsibility, Desire, and Love
108
The New Morality
111
6 LOVE IS WORK
115
Community as Work
117
Jesus and the Future State
122
7 FROM ISOLATION TO COMMUNITY
128
Consciousness and Community
129
From Private Property to community 145
Why We Live in Community
153
8 THE FIGHT AGAINST MAMMON
172
God or Mammon
172
The Fight Against Mammon 175
9 GOD WITH US
182
The Experience of God
183
The Spirit of the Risen One
19