Against the Wind: Eberhard Arnold and the Bruderhof - Plough

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Against the Wind evening professors Falckenberg, Römer, and Hensel conducted Eberhard’s oral examination. Very soon afterwards Emmy received a telegram: “Summa cum laude. Arrive tomorrow morning in Halle.” takEn at thEir word Before noon on December 1, 1909, Eberhard set foot in the von Hollander home, Dessauer Strasse 8A, for the first time in more than a year. Emmy’s parents received him very kindly, just as if nothing had ever come between them. Eberhard came right to the point. He had passed his examination. Now he requesed that Johann Heinrich von Hollander give him Emmy’s papers and honor his promise not to further deter their marriage. After some preliminary hesitation the lawyer opened his strongbox and gave his future son-in-law Emmy’s birth certificate, her certificate of nobility, and her proof of nationality. Eberhard and Emmy lost no time and went that same morning to the registrar in north Halle. The first possible date for their wedding was December 20. The couple had already rented a small apartment in Leipzig a few days before Eberhard’s examination. (“Irresponsible!” was what Emmy’s parents had called the step.) Else and a former housekeeper of the von Hollanders now busied themselves setting up the new household, but Emmy’s mother was conspicuous by her absence. Eberhard’s parents came to the wedding from Breslau, apparently reconciled with their son and proud of him and his bride. His sisters Clara, Hannah, and Betty were there, as were a few relatives from both sides – a company of some twenty people in all. Both fathers wished to sign as witnesses to the wedding and went to the registrar with the couple, driving in a dapper blue carriage. Of course, in keeping with the wedding couple’s convictions, there was no church ceremony. But there was at least a wedding sermon. Otto Mau, from Erfurt, spoke on Mark 6:7: “Jesus sent out his disciples two by two.” Then Carl Franklin Arnold took over. “As you have rejected the church’s blessing, I can do no more than give you a blessing from both your parents,” he said; and he blessed his son and daughterin-law in the name of the triune God. Pastor Ernst Ferdinand Klein, Eberhard’s uncle, told of Eberhard’s religious awakening in the summer of 1899, and drew attention to the deep earnestness required for a couple to found their marriage on faith without any assured income. A few hymns ended the ceremony, which was followed by a wedding meal at The Crown Prince. Emmy and Eberhard soon took leave of the wedding party and traveled by train to Leipzig-Lindenau, the 44
Against the Wind city of their first home, Kanzlerstrasse 17 – an apartment with four tiny rooms, a little garden, and an arbor. The honeymoon was kept short. By New Year’s Eve Eberhard was back at work. niEtZSChE At this point in the story, something must be said about Eberhard’s connection with Nietzsche. Nietzsche’s philosophy, language, and thinking continued to concern Eberhard even after he completed his doctorate. In the following years, traces of the great impression made on him by this eccentric and extraordinary thinker surfaced in his thought, seech, and acion. It is true that Eberhard’s doctoral thesis reveals a great deal about Friedrich Nietzsche’s religious thought. But it reveals equally as much about Eberhard’s inner viewpoint in 1909. In his report Professor Falckenberg had recognized Eberhard’s “keen but not unrestrained appreciation of Nietzsche’s objections and accusations against Christianity.” What was it that Eberhard appreciated in Friedrich Nietzsche’s criticism? That can be summarized as follows: Eberhard agreed with Nietzsche that “the church’s foundation is built upon the very opposite of the Gosels”; that the church is “a terrible hodgepodge of Greek philosophy and Judaism, of asceticism, of hierarchical order, etc.” Further, he shared Nietzsche’s view that originally Christianity “tolerated no connection with politics and state policies; it cannot in any way be a religion of the masses.” 11 At times Eberhard’s trenchant analysis of the esablished churches goes even further than Nietzsche’s criticisms. In the everyday life of the churches of his day Eberhard was hard-pressed to discover any argument to weaken Nietzsche’s objective criticisms of Christianity. To do this he had to go back to “early Christianity, as described in the Acts of the Apostles and in the New Tesament epistles.” In other words, Eberhard could not and would not in any way defend the “Christianity” that Nietzsche had in mind when he made his sometimes accurate observations and sometimes grossly abusive attacks. Eberhard painted a picture of New Tesament Christianity that exposed Nietzsche’s accusations – “decadent,”“lifenegating,” “feeble,” “religion of pity,” etc. – as crass and arbitrary misinterpretations. Eberhard’s criticism of this philosopher so well-versed in the Bible was basically as follows: Nietzsche had made it too easy for himself; he recognized false Christians but had too quickly given up the search for true ones. Against his better judgment, Nietzsche had often asserted sheer nonsense, and had finally lost his way completely. 45
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Contents—iv Foreword—ix Preface
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Select Bibliography Arnold, Christo
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