![]() The Hammer of God (for which he is most well-known a best-seller in Sweden) were the “down to earth stories” about “what he had already described” in this book (xiv). This hung around his neck for the rest of his life. ![]() His life took a turn in the 1950s when the Church of Sweden approved the ordination of women and he, alone among the bishops, stood in opposition. He served as a pastor, a bishop, a participant in world Lutheranism, but also an author with over one million books in print and countless articles, interviews, and weekly exegetical notes. This led him to study theology and desire to be a pastor, which he got to do for decades. ![]() Born to atheist and agnostic parents, he himself went from atheism to Christianity when he encountered faithful Christians in college. If you don’t know that, stop reading, order a copy from Amazon, and then finish this review. We know Bo Giertz, if we know him at all, mostly for his novel The Hammer of God. Christ’s Church was his first, written at the age of thirty-three. ![]() ![]() From the back cover: Bo Giertz (1905-1998), Bishop of Gothenburg in the Lutheran Church of Sweden, was voted the most influential Swedish church leader during the 1900s. ![]()
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