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“Arnold’s life is a testimony that in community the Spirit, which can be found in all traditions, can reveal to us the real causes of social injustice.”—Thich Nhat Hanh Eberhard Arnold (1883-1935) was one of the most remarkable Christian figures of the twentieth century. In the years after World War I he abandoned his career as an academic theologian to live by the radical spirit of the Sermon on the Mount. With his family and a small circle of friends he founded the Bruderhof, a community rooted in the Anabaptist tradition. His writings, which concern the quest of peace, community, and the call to a revolution of the spirit, ring with the inspiring challenge to live as if the Gospel were true. Johann Christoph Arnold is Eberhard Arnold’s grandson and senior elder of the Bruderhof since 1983. He is the author of a number of best-selling books including Cries from the Heart, I Tell You a Mystery, and Seventy Times Seventy.
Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the martyred archbishop of San Salvador, exemplified a new face of holiness for our time. A relatively undistinguished prelate at the time of his consecration in 1977, he quickly underwent a powerful conversion. In three short years he became a courageous advocate of the oppressed, a voice for the voiceless and friend of the poor, whose witness would be crowned by his own martyrdom. This work examines Romero’s words as well as “parables” drawn from his life to explore the essential dimensions of his spirituality and its universal challenge. Marie Dennis is coordinator of the Maryknoll Justice and Peace Office in Washington, D.C. and author of A Retreat with Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day. Renny Golden teaches at Northwestern Illinois University. Her books include The Hour of the Poor, The Hour of Women. Scott Wright is on the staff of EPICA and author of Promised Land.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Charles de Foucauld Henri Nouwen Simone Weil |
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