More gripping than Frank E. Peretti and Stephen King, this book written by Johann Christoph Blumhardt in 1844 is not a novel, but an enthralling eye-witness account sent to the Senior Church Authorities of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg. The consequence of the events described was a powerful revival in which the whole village of Mottlingen, with only a few exceptions, was converted. A movement sprang up in which thousands of people were healed from physical sickness and released from spiritual bondage. The lame could walk, the blind could see, and bread was multiplied. Even the King of Wurttemberg paid an anonymous visit to one of the Sunday services which often attracted up to two thousand people to the small country church in Mottlingen.
In 1852 the Blumhardts moved as a family to Bad Boll, where they established a healing community to which people from all over Europe were drawn. Blumhardt concluded that the in-breaking of the kingdom of God he had experienced n Mottlingen represented what Jesus had in store for the whole cosmos. Johann Christoph Blumhardt and his son Christoph Freidrich Blumhardt had a major influence on Theologians such as Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Deitrich Bonhoeffer and Jurgen Moltmann.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Kevin Dedmon
Foreword by Walter Heidenreich
Introduction by Gary S. Greig
Preface by Johann Christoph Blumhardt
Postscript
About the Author
Jesus Casts Out Demons
