The Conscience
Inner Land--A Guide into the Heart of the Gospel, Volume 2
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Plough Publishing House
Published:17th Oct '19
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Full use of Plough’s print and online platforms, combined reach 100,000. This audience has already been primed for interest in Arnold, with his work appearing in the print magazine, online articles, and daily emails. Launch of a major new website featuring all of Arnolds work, with a focus on augmenting Arnold’s influence and following through email and social media. Influencer campaign revisiting previous endorsers and soliciting new ones from figures such as N.T. Wright, Richard Rohr, Stanley Hauerwas, and Russel Moore. Giveaways of print and digital galleys via Goodreads, NetGalley, and LibraryThing. Academic and library markets targeted in mailings and advertising.
Part of a major promotional effort for the 2020 centennial of Plough, the publishing house Arnold founded. Other plans include a new website, social media accounts, email lists, events, and publicity.Second volume in a beautifully designed series of 10 titles by this author, including reissues and new titles. Now back in print, this influeWhen troubled consciences find healing they become a force for good. The conscience, our inner moral compass, is a sensitive instrument meant to warn us against all that might endanger our life and happiness. Many today despise or ignore the conscience, calling its working unhealthy repression of natural urges, or rejecting any certainty in the name of relativism. Others are tormented by its accusations. In this little book, Arnold points the way to complete healing and restoration of even the most troubled conscience. When Christ’s forgiveness sets the conscience free and floods it with his live-renewing spirit, it becomes an active force for good, giving us clarity in personal, social, and political questions and leading us to peace, joy, justice, and community. The Conscience is the second volume of five in Inner Land: A Guide into the Heart of the Gospel. About Inner Land A trusted guide into the inner realm where our spirits find strength to master life and live for God. It is hard to exaggerate the significance of Innerland, either for Eberhard Arnold or his readers. It absorbed his energies off and on for most of his adult life--from World War I, when he published the first chapter under the title War: A Call to Inwardness, to 1935, the last year of his life. Packed in metal boxes and buried at night for safekeeping from the Nazis, who raided the author’s study a year before his death (and again a year after it), Innerland was not openly critical of Hitler’s regime. Nevertheless, it attacked the spirits that animated German society: its murderous strains of racism and bigotry, its heady nationalistic fervor, its mindless mass hysteria, and its vulgar materialism. In this sense Innerland stands as starkly opposed to the zeitgeist of our own day as to that of the author’s. At a glance, the focus of Innerland seems to be the cultivation of the spiritual life as an end...
The undeniable power of Arnold’s writing owes to the fact that there is no difference between what he professed to believe and the way he lived. It gives his words a resonance and depth, a right to be heard. --Juli Loesch Wiley, New Oxford Review
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of persons with Christ as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. Arnold’s vision incarnates just such a community. --Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline
Innerland calls men and women to a life of such trust in God that their attitudes toward his kingdom, other people, material wealth, and earthly power are transformed. --Christianity Today
Arnold’s writing has all the simple, luminous, direct vision into things that I have come to associate with his name. It has the authentic ring of a truly evangelical Christianity and moves me deeply. It stirs to repentance and renewal. --Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
Arnold’s writings are a light of hope in an age which seems very dark. May they no longer remain hidden under a bushel, but shine out to be heeded by many. --Jürgen Moltmann
The witness of Eberhard Arnold is a much needed corrective to an American church that has lost the vital, biblical connection between belief and obedience. --Jim Wallis, Sojourners
Innerland is a bold and challenging invitation to the path of discipleship that speaks to both the terrors and the hopes of our time. Along with the likes of John Woolman, Thomas Kelly, and Dorothy Day, Eberhard Arnold is one of the great secrets of radical Christianity. The reprinting of this masterpiece is truly a gift. –Chris Faatz, Powell’s Books
ISBN: 9780874862478
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
74 pages