The Awakening: One Man's Battle with Darkness

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When Blumhardt, a 19th-century pastor from the Black Forest, agreed to counsel a tormented woman in his parish, all hell broke loose - literally. But that was only the beginning of the drama that ensued. Zuendel's account, available here in English for the first time, provides a rare glimpse into how the eternal fight between the forces of good and evil plays itself out in the lives of the most ordinary men and women. More than that, it reminds us that those forces still surround us today, whether we are awake to them or not.

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John Wilson, Books and Culture One of the ten best books of 1999. BBC World The time is right to bring this most interesting tale to a wider audience. British Medical Journal Offers new insights into mental illness...this new line of approach in what seemed to be a dead end street has been most welcome.

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Pastor, politician, and author Christoph F. Blumhardt (1842-1919) influenced a whole generation of Europeans, including Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Emil Brunner, Oscar Cullman, and Karl Barth. His father, Johann C. Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a Swabian pastor and is regarded by many as the father of German pietism.