Salt and Light

Eberhard Arnold (1883–1935) studied theology, philosophy, and education and was widely sought as a speaker at student conferences and other gatherings. In 1920, leaving a promising career as a writer and the privileges of upper-middle- class life in Berlin, he moved with his wife and children to Sannerz, a small village in central Germany, where they founded a Christian community on the basis of the Sermon on the Mount.

• ForewordIntroductionThe Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5–7)Not a New LawBecoming True Men and WomenSalt and LightHappinessThe Nature of the New Justice“But I Say to You…”Away from Compromise and ShadowAgainst Bloodshed and ViolenceThe Better RighteousnessGod or MammonThe Fight Against MammonMammon and the Living GodThe DecisionResistance by SurrenderThe Spirit of Life OvercomesPresent Experience, Future KingdomThe Joyful News of the Kingdom

Expecting everything from God and from God alone, certain that his seed and his light are in all people, Eberhard Arnold permits no compromise in witnessing to the way of nonviolence and nonpossession that he sees exemplified by Jesus. --Friends Journal