Gerhard Sauter

Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work

History & Biography

“There is now available a wealth of biographical material which enables us, to a much greater degree than before, to illuminate Blumhardt's place in the history of the territorial churches and in contemporary church life. This has made possible the present biography, a model of its kind, in which Dieter Ising has been able to base his account on his comprehensive edition of Blumhardt's letters as well as on further previously unpublished materials.”

Rethinking Christmas

Arts & Literature

“S T Kimbrough’s Rethinking Christmas considers afresh the annual celebration of God’s coming into the world as a poor child who brings peace and reconciliation to a suffering humanity. Kimbrough uses poetry to represent different voices in various contexts to indicate why and to which purpose Jesus was born into a wounded world. Every poem relates to a revealing biblical sentence and is capable to imagine the mystery of God’s surprising coming to us.”