The Essence of Christianity: Living in Truth and through Grace.

埃勒特·赫尔姆斯描述了基督教的本质，尤其是基督徒的生活，他认为这是一个典型的例子，在对上帝、世界和生活的实际确信的基础上，作为一个社区生活。这种确定性可以追溯到揭露的启示事件，这些事件作为可靠的肯定指导着日常生活，而日常生活本身就成为这种确定性的表达。基督徒的确定性是这样的：我们活着的现在是造物主在他无所不在的情况下对团契和和解的渴望的实现（使徒行传17:28）。它通过他自主的自我表露而变得完整。因此，人类对世界、本源和自我的确定性是不断发展的。作者将基督教神学的本质描述为基督徒生活的理论，他将基督教确定性的起源追溯到原始的启示（启示），并阐明了信仰在言语上的忏悔以及在行为上的忏悔的主题。

Eilert Herms describes the nature of Christianity, and in particular the Christian life, which he sees as being an exemplaric case of living as a community in light of a practical certainty about God, the world and life. This certainty goes back to revelatory events of disclosure, whose affirmation as reliable directs daily life which itself becomes an expression of this certainty. What is specific to Christian certainty is this: our living present is the realization of the creator¿s desire for fellowship and reconciliation in his omnipresence (Acts 17,28). It becomes complete through his autonomous self-disclosure. As a consequence, human certainty of world, origin and self is subject to continuous development. The author depicts the nature of Christian theology as being the theory of the Christian life, he traces the origin of Christian certainty back to primordial instances of disclosure (¿revelations¿), and explicates the subject matter of faith¿s confession in words as well as the whole of its confession in deeds.