Johann Christoph Arnold 
Seeking Peace 
Notes and Conversations along the Way

Where can we find peace of heart and mind–with ourselves, with others, and with God? Arnold says most people are looking in the wrong direction. In a culture that bombards us with feel-good-about-yourself spirituality,
Seeking Peace is sure to satisfy a deep hunger. There is a peace greater than self-fulfilment, a peace greater than nations no longer at war. But it will demand a relentless pursuit kept up only by hope and courage, vision and commitment.


Seeking Peace explores many facets of humankind’s ageless search for peace. It plumbs a wealth of spiritual traditions and draws on the wisdom of some exceptional (and some very ordinary) people who have found peace in surprising places.


Independent Publisher Book Award winner


Foreword Magazine Book of the Year

Tabella dei contenuti

Contents
Foreword by Madeleine L’Engle
Preface by Thich Nhat Hanh
Introduction

Part I
Seeking Peace
Part
Meanings
Peace as the Absence of War
Peace in the Bible
Peace as a Social Causer
Peace in Personal Life
The Peace of God
The Peace that Passes Understanding

Part III
Paradoxes
Not Peace, but a Sword
The Violence of Love
No Life without Death
The Wisdom of Fools
The Strength of Weakness

Part IV
Stepping Stones
Simplicity
Silence
Surrender
Prayer
Trust
Forgiveness
Gratitude
Honesty
Humility
Obedience
Decisiveness
Repentance
Conviction
Realism
Service

Part V
The Abundant Life
Security
Wholeness
Joy
Action
Justice
Hope

Circa l’autore

Johann Christoph Arnold was an award-winning author with over two million copies of his twelve books in print in more than twenty languages. A noted speaker and writer on marriage, parenting, and end-of-life issues. Arnold was a senior pastor of the Bruderhof, a movement of Christian communities, until his death in April 2017. Johann Christoph Arnold’s books include Why Forgive?, Rich in Years, Their Name Is Today, Seeking Peace, Escape Routes, Cries from the Heart, Be Not Afraid, Why Children Matter, and Sex, God and Marriage.