Redeemed Love: After Life

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Redeemed Love: After Life is a story by the Christian author Käthe Papke . It deals with the change from an atheistic doctor to a believing Christian, triggered by the death of his terminally ill fiancée . The story was published in 1939 by Christophorus-Verlag .

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Dr. Helmbrecht is a doctor in his mid-thirties, totally committed to his profession. Because of his professional and human skills, he is a sought-after man. All the work doesn't leave him time to enter into a relationship, which doesn't bother him as a “ misogynist ”. The atheistic doctor is proud of the success of his rational healing art. Social obligations are anathema to him.

So also the invitation to the family of the privy councilor, who are also professing Christians . Helmbrecht is bored, but when he hears the pale Elisabeth singing a Christian song on the piano, it has happened to him. The ailing Elisabeth, friend of the daughter of the house, as an impoverished orphan who has learned nothing, has a kind of position with the privy councilor's family at the age of 30, whom she devotedly cared for after a stroke. Although the doctor initially vehemently resisted any further contact with Elisabeth, the constant contact at the bedside resulted in a deep relationship between the two.

Elisabeth, the devout Christian, wrestles with herself whether she can say yes to an atheist. Dr. Helmbrecht, on the other hand, is convinced that he will be able to convince the Christian with his rationality that there is no eternal life . When the pastor of the village recommended Elisabeth that she should marry Helmbrecht in trust in God, she fell seriously ill with a hereditary disease. All medical art of the fiance is in vain. Elisabeth dies.

Every year Helmbrecht informs the local pastor about his spiritual development, which ultimately ends as a deeply religious, mature man. He founded a clinic, which he named after his fiancé Elisabeth, in which he cures diseases like Elisabeth's with wonderful success. When the doctor himself became terminally infected by a patient, he wrote the pastor a final letter in which he thanked the pastor and Elisabeth for the fate that led him to God.

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  • Käthe Papke: Redeemed love: After life. Christophorus Verlag, 1939.