Hoffer began writing The True Believer in the 1940s, as Nazism and fascism spread across Europe. Most analysts studying how these movements became so powerful focused on their leaders and the ideas they trumpeted.
Jonah: A Prophet Out of Time did not originate as a book or a business. It began as a series of meditations e-mailed to friends and relatives. The driving force behind these mailings was to share God with as many people as possible and to provoke' those who read it; provoke them into thought, if not action. To stir them into considering their relationship with God and what it really means for them. To perhaps even encourage them to ask for a deeper, more meaningful relationship with Christ; a relationship with Him at the center instead of material or earthly concerns. God seems to have blessed these efforts in ways that I could not have expected. Lives are being touched and doors are being opened. I have no desire to do the human' thing with Jonah; to ride the crest of opinion and jump to the next popular topic. Jonah did not originate for that purpose and is not likely to change. I'm convinced that it is only by God's Grace and the power of the Holy Spirit that I am permitted to share them on a broader basis. May God richly bless you as you follow this belligerent Prophet in his journey through The Sermon on the Mount.
Susan has a fascination with the absurdities of the English language which she has effectively combined with her love of popular music to bring you this witty little volume. Written in the most pedantic and stilted manner, lyrics of familiar songs from the past become surprisingly poetic and amusing as they seem to take on a new language of their own. Try not to peek at the title before reading through all of her innovative purple poetry, for to do so is to deprive oneself of a ridiculous beauty. Ms. Burns has given us more than an imaginative guessing game, she has bestowed upon us a rare new art form.
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And convince some, who doubt; save some by snatching them out of the fire; on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment spotted by the flesh." Jude 20-23 -Pg.19
Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative thinking and critical analysis at their best, providing an insight into two crucial elements of critical thinking. Hoffer is likely to go down in history as one of America’s great creative thinkers – a writer not bound by standard frameworks of thinking or academic conventions, willing to beat his own path in framing the best possible answers to the questions he investigated. An impoverished, largely unschooled manual laborer who had survived the worst effects of the Great Depression in the United States, Hoffer was a passionate autodidact whose philosophical and psychological education came from omnivorous reading. Working without the help of any mentors, he forged the fearsomely creative and individual approach to problems demonstrated in The True Believer. The book, which earned him his reputation, examines the different phenomena of fanaticism – religious or political – and applies Hoffer’s analytical skills to reveal that, deep down, all ‘true believers’ display the same needs and tendencies, whatever their final choice of belief. Incisive and persuasive, it remains a classic.
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