Peter Mommsen

Homage to a Broken Man (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of J. Heinrich Arnold - A true story of faith, forgiveness, sacrifice, and community

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A dramatic true story of a man refined by fire, a Bruderhof pastor whose spiritual legacy continues to touch thousands.

Can our wounds become our greatest gift? Bruderhof pastor J. Heinrich Arnold was a broken man. Yet those who knew him said they never met another like him. Some spoke of his humility and compassion; others of his frankness and earthy humor. In his presence, complete strangers poured out their darkest secrets and left transformed. Others met him with hatred.

Writer Henri Nouwen called him a "prophetic voice" and wrote of how his words "touched me as a double-edged sword, calling me to choose between truth and lies, selflessness and selfishness. . . . Here was no pious, sentimental guide; every word came from experience."

Who was this extraordinary yet simple man? In this gripping and richly spiritual book, Peter Mommsen tells the dramatic true story of the grandfather he hardly knew. Read it, and you will never look at your own life the same way again.

Gold Medal Winner, 2016 IPPY Book of the Year Award in Biography, Independent Publishers
Silver Medal Winner, 2016 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion, Independent Book Publishers Association

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Plough Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 415
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780874865998
• Artikelnr.: 49829382

Autorenporträt

Peter Mommsen is the editor of Plough Quarterly magazine. He lives in upstate New York with his wife Wilma and their three children.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents 1. Opa 2. Revolution 3. Sannerz 4. A Blow 5. Conversion 6. The Sun
Troop 7. Lotte 8. Father and Son 9. Adolescence 10. Tata 11. An Arrival 12.
Nazis 13. Silum 14. Annemarie 15. The Farewell 16. Four O¿clock 17. The
Last Letter 18. Refugee Wedding 19. Emmy Maria 20. Heliopher 21. Primavera
22. Repentance 23. Nightmares 24. Among Children 25. Banished 26. Sapucay
27. Fatherhood 28. Marianne 29. On the Road 30. Changes 31. Woodcrest 32.
The Crucible 33. Liberation 34. To the Finish Epilogue Sources
Acknowledgments