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    An Embassy Besieged

    The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany


    Foreword by Johann Christoph Arnold

    4.33 Stars on Goodreads

    The story of a Christian community in Nazi Germany. This is an amazing account of a community who stayed true to the nonviolent way of the Cross, and how, despite relentless Nazi opposition, God protected and victoriously led them along the way.


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    About The Book

    Here for the first time in print is the story of a small group who dared to confront Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich with the love of Jesus Christ. Avoiding covert resistance on the one hand and complicity and compromise on the other, the Rhön Bruderhof, under the courageous leadership of Eberhard Arnold, boldly witnessed to the politics of the Kingdom of God in Nazi Germany. Although "less than a gnat to an elephant," in Arnold's words, they believed that as God's ambassadors love could overcome hatred-even of Adolf Hitler himself. This is an amazing account of a community who stayed true to the nonviolent way of the Cross, and how, despite relentless Nazi opposition, God protected and victoriously led them along the way.

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    About The Author

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    Emmy Barth Maendel

    Emmy Barth Maendel is a member of the Bruderhof communities and a senior archivist for the Bruderhof’s historical archives. Read More

    Acclaim

    • Seeking to embody the Sermon on the Mount and articulating a clear Anabaptist theology of church and state, the early Bruderhof movement gives a courageous testimony to nonviolence in a harsh totalitarian state. Emmy Barth tells a compelling and well-crafted story that is hard to put down.

      Donald B. Kraybill, author of The Upside Down Kingdom

    • In An Embassy Besieged, a small community of Christians courageously and graciously refuses to compromise their faith in the face of the worst human evil. Their witness has much to teach us today in a world so riddled with prejudice, so tired of militarism, so starved for grace, and so desperate for imagination.

      Shane Claiborne, author, activist

    • Scripture tells us that we are to be a counter-cultural community, living out the radical teachings of Christ. This book sets a pattern for those who want to live faithfully in opposition to the dictatorial consumeristic culture of our age.

      Tony Campolo, Eastern University, St. Davids, PA

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    Table of Contents

    1. Historical Background: The Path to Community
    2. Hitler’s Rise to Power
    3. March to April 1933
    4. May to June 1933
    5. June to October 1933
    6. October to November 1933
    7. Plebiscite and Raid
    8. November to December 1933
    9. January to February 1934
    10. February to May 1934
    11. June to July 1934
    1. Romans 13
    2. July to August 1934
    3. September to December 1934
    4. January to March 1935
    5. March to October 1935
    6. The Revelation of John
    7. November 1935
    8. December 1935 to July 1936
    9. August to December 1936
    10. January to April 1937
    11. May to July 1937

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