Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work: A New Biography

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Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a pastoral counselor and theologian of hope. His theology and pastoral approach, shaped as they were by the awakening in his congregation and numerous incidents of faith healing, provoked earnest and lively debate, and the controversy continues today. Ising’s work mines the original sources, the product of an interaction with Blumhardt’s life and work that goes back many years. He has drawn a portrait that explores the shadows as well as its bright side. Readers are invited to enter fully into the nineteenth century, Blumhardt’s century, yet are constantly reminded that the problems of that day have lost none of their currency within the altered mental horizons of today.