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The Hammer of God di Bo Giertz
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The Hammer of God (edizione 2005)

di Bo Giertz, Clifford Ansgar Nelson (Traduttore), Hans Andrae (Traduttore)

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In this bestselling novel, three pastors learn the necessity ofrelying on God's grace. They fall short of their pastoralduties through public humiliation, self-doubt, inability toaccept God's promises in their own lives, and divisions andquarreling among their parishioners. Ultimately each manrejects temptations and permits the Holy Spirit to workthrough him.This revised edition includes the final chapter, never beforepublished in English. The new introduction provideshistorical and theological background to deepen the reader'sunderstanding of the stories.… (altro)
Utente:tneujahr
Titolo:The Hammer of God
Autori:Bo Giertz
Altri autori:Clifford Ansgar Nelson (Traduttore), Hans Andrae (Traduttore)
Info:Minneapolis : Augsburg Books, c2005.
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Dieser geistliche Klassiker enthält drei kurze Erzählungen, die in der gleichen Kirchengemeinde spielen, jeweils um etwa zwei Generationen zeitversetzt. In jeder Geschichte steht ein junger Pastor im Mittelpunkt, der beim Antritt seiner ersten Stelle als Hilfspfarrer feststellen muss, dass sein im Studium erworbenes Wissen nicht ausreicht, um eine Gemeinde zu führen.

Im Jahr 1808 wird der Hilfsgeistliche Savonius an ein Krankenbett gerufen. Widerwillig löst er sich von einer ausgelassenen Feier, um diese unangenehme Aufgabe wahrzunehmen. Doch am Bett dieser sterbenden Person schämt er sich. Er merkt, wie selbstsüchtig er ist, und wie hilflos angesichts der geistlichen Not dieses Kirchenmitglieds. Diese Erfahrung verändert ihn. Doch nicht jedem ist seine Verwandlung recht. Und am Ende muss Savonius feststellen, dass ihn diese Erneuerung nicht vor Selbstgerechtigkeit bewahrt.

Im Jahr 1879 tritt der bekehrte Fridfeldt seine Stelle als Hilfspastor an. Er meint viel frommer zu sein als sein Vorgesetzter, auf den er insgeheim verächtlich herabblickt. Doch mit der Zeit stellt er fest, dass er von seinem neuen Chef viel lernen kann, gerade wenn es um den Umgang mit streitenden Gemeindemitgliedern geht.

Und schließlich befindet sich der Leser im Jahr 1937. Der junge Pastor Torvik ist entmutigt. Gemeindearbeit passt einfach nicht zu ihm, er möchte lieber ganz in Ruhe hochgeistliche Inhalte studieren. Doch wegen einem eindeutigen Berufungserlebnis, entscheidet er sich doch in seiner Pfarrei zu bleiben. Wegen den Entscheidungen eines guten Freundes, muss er neu bedenken, inwieweit die Bibel die Richtschnur seines Leben ist.

Diese Geschichten spielen in einer lutherischen Kirchengemeinde, und sie setzen sich einerseits mit dem Pietismus und andererseits mit der Bibelkritik auseinander. 1941 geschrieben, ist die Schreibweise ungewohnt. In Romanform werden geistliche Fragen untersucht. Dazu gibt es mehrere Passagen mit längeren Dialogen oder Predigtausschnitten. Das Ergebnis ist trotz der ausgefallenen Form gut lesbar und spannend, und die aufgeworfenen Fragen und Probleme sind auch heute, nach fast einhundert Jahren, aktuell.

Jede Erzählung besteht aus drei längeren Kapiteln, die die Jungpfarrer in verschiedenen Phasen ihres Dienstes zeigen. Nach einer Bekehrung erwachsen neue Zweifel, aus einer bereinigten Freundschaft entsteht ein neuer Konflikt. Die Erzählungen enden mit Weisheiten, die zum Nachdenken anregen. Wichtige Themen sind Gnade und Gesetz, Barmherzigkeit und Selbstgerechtigkeit, Gehorsam und Scheinchristentum.

Fazit: In diesem wertvollen Werk stecken tiefe geistliche Wahrheiten, eingebettet in Erzählungen, die menschliche Eigenarten anschaulich darstellen. Sehr empfehlenswert! ( )
  strickleserl | Apr 30, 2023 |
I'd been wanting to get my hands on this book for a couple of years and finally borrowed it from the local Lutheran seminary. It's a collection of three novellas, set respectively in the early 1800s, late 1800s, and early WWII, about young pastors coming to grips with the power of the gospel, often out of various kinds of revivalist and rationalist formation in seminary. It wasn't so much the stories or characterization that I found compelling, though the settings in various periods of Scandinavian Lutheran church history were interesting. It was the unadulterated presentation of the gospel, from a robustly Lutheran perspective, that I found refreshing. It had strong similarities to my own Reformed molding in the gospel, to a degree that even surprised me, though I'm sure I could parse out points of difference if I'd been looking to read it that way. The translation from Swedish was a little bumpy at times.

I would recommend this to seminarians, young pastors in need of encouragement, and anyone who wants to know (or be reminded) why the classical Protestant articulation of the gospel remains earth-shattering to many today. There's a fullness and churchliness to it that abbreviated evangelical treatments of the gospel don't always capture, though I've read exceptions.

Learned of it here: http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tullian/2011/06/30/the-whole-debt-is-paid/ ( )
  LudieGrace | Aug 10, 2020 |
Excellent treatment of the Law and Grace in the form of a novel from a Lutheran perspective. Very well done. Contributes significantly to the current Evangelical (and Reformed) debate over sanctification. ( )
  KenMcLain | Jul 18, 2017 |
This book will help you understand how to read the Bible properly, distinguishing between law and Gospel, and illustrating the expected outcome of modern evangelical preaching. ( )
  mdubois | Feb 18, 2014 |
What does it mean to really follow Jesus? In some circles today that is a frequently heard question, one that implies that what may be considered the traditional forms of church and Christian belief are no longer valid and relevant. The tacit belief is that Christianity must evolve in order to have any relevance for our day. That question lies beneath the surface of each of the three novellas of Bo Giertz, published as a collection under the title The Hammer of God.

Giertz was a pastor and bishop in Sweden during the latter half of the 20th century. He has set the three novellas within the same church, during three separate time periods: 1808-10, 1878-80 and 1938-40. The stories also have in common that the protagonist in each novella is a young pastor on his first assignment since finishing seminary. In the first two stories the young pastor works as an associate, whom he has disdain for, albeit for very different reasons. In the last story the young pastor is feeling is way alone in a church and culture that bears a striking similarity to our own in its increasing disregard for anything that claims to assert truth as an objective claim with authority over the subjectivity of feelings .

As each story progresses the central character learns what it means to truly believe in Jesus and the word of God as written in the Bible. They learn that Christ, and Christ alone, is the only solid ground from which they can live their live. They learn the enduring value of relying on answers, expressed in the ecumenical creeds, that the church has developed to set boundaries to acceptable belief. They learn, in real and practical terms, that to follow Christ means not following along in the ways of the culture around them. And they learn these lessons through compelling storytelling, with a wide range of secondary characters and circumstances.

This is a work of fiction but from my own perspective as a pastor of a small Protestant church these novellas are permeated with the bread-and-butter concerns of ministry in the 21st century. Giertz may have written these stories in the mid-20th century however core issues the pastors face and the philosophies guiding their times remain relevant today. I found a lot in this work that echoed C.S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man, with people seeing no hazard in leaving the established moral truth that had long guided their culture for something they felt was a higher and more noble cause, to disastrous results.

In the end, from both points-of-view I held as I read, pastor and general reader, I found The Hammer of God to be a delightful book. ( )
  BradKautz | Nov 13, 2013 |
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In this bestselling novel, three pastors learn the necessity ofrelying on God's grace. They fall short of their pastoralduties through public humiliation, self-doubt, inability toaccept God's promises in their own lives, and divisions andquarreling among their parishioners. Ultimately each manrejects temptations and permits the Holy Spirit to workthrough him.This revised edition includes the final chapter, never beforepublished in English. The new introduction provideshistorical and theological background to deepen the reader'sunderstanding of the stories.

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