Foundational Sources

The Bruderhof’s statement of faith and church constitution, as approved by all Bruderhof members after a five-year...

Introduction to the life and writings of Christoph Blumhardt (1842-1919), the religious socialist who with his father Johann...

The biography of Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805–1880)

Letters written by Jakob Hutter, who led the early Anabaptist church communities in Moravia until his martyrdom in 1536.

For two decades the elder of the Bruderhof, J. Heinrich Arnold’s classic work is, in the words of Henri Nouwen, “a prophetic...

Selections from Tertullian, Ignatius, Clement, Irenaeus, Origen, the Didache, and other Christian writers of the first three...

An introductory anthology of writings of Eberhard Arnold (1883–1935), theologian, educator, and founder of the Bruderhof.

This topical collection draws on Arnold’s writings on discipleship, the church, and communal Christianity.

Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805–1880), a Lutheran pastor, speaks in these sermons of what it means to expect the kingdom of...