Ole Hallesby

He was an atypical combination of Lutheran seminary dogmatics professor and pietistic revival preacher; but in every arena, Ole Hallesby proclaimed the message of conversion. There could hardly be a message more relevant today. Current theological trends often describe the Spirit's inner workings as imperceptible, faith as mere intellectual and verbal endorsement of Christian doctrine, and man as already right with God and needing only to assuage his troubled conscience through self-application of comforting Scriptures. In contradistinction to this, the Norwegian Hallesby declared the Biblical imperative of conversion: the subjective...