''The Hammer of God: A Novel about the Cure of Souls'' by
Bo Giertz
Bo Harald Giertz (; 31 August 1905 – 12 July 1998) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian, novelist and bishop of the Gothenburg Lutheran Diocese from 1949 to 1970. By the time he became bishop, he was already quite well known in Sweden and elsewh ...
was first published in 1941 in
Swedish
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as ''Stengrunden'' ("The Stone Foundation"). It has been translated into English in 1960, 1973 and 2005. The English-language title derives from the first part of the book, ''Herrens hammare'' ("The Hammer of the Lord").
It was filmed in 2007 and is available with Swedish and English subtitles.
Literature
* ''The Hammer of God: A Novel about the Cure of Souls''. Translated by Clifford Ansgar Nelson. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing, 2005. . Revised edition.
External links
http://www.stengrunden.org, homepage of the filmatized version of The Hammer of Cross(Linked 5 January 2009 in turn t
http://www.malmberg.org/stengrunden/)
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Christian novels
1941 Swedish novels
Novels about Christian clergy
Swedish-language novels