Only Necessary Thing(1st Edition) Living a Prayerful Life by H. Nouwen, Wendy Wilson Greer Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Gardners Books ISBN-13: 978-0-232-52355-3, ISBN: 0-232-52355-X
The Only Necessary Thing(6th Edition) Living a Prayerful Life by Wendy Wilson Greer Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1999 by Crossroad Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-8245-1833-2, ISBN: 0-8245-1833-0
"This sweeping new anthology shows how religion has joined with and learned from movements for social justice, peace, and ecological wisdom. Liberating Faith surveys the entire range of religious social activism: from liberation theology and feminist religion to ecotheology and peace activism. It includes theology, social critique, position papers, denominational statements, manifestos, rituals, prayers, biographical accounts, and journa ..."
"A collection of essays by the great spiritual writer and teacher covers a wide range of topics, from the "theology of weakness" to the spirituality of waiting."
Following Jesus Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety : Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety by HenriNouwen Hardcover, Published 2019 by Spck Publishing 2019-09-17 ISBN-13: 978-0-281-08355-8, ISBN: 0-281-08355-X
"Together for the first time in one devotional, experience daily readings from such bestselling and respected voices as Frederick Buechner, Brennan Manning, Henri Nouwen, Eugene Peterson, James Bryan Smith, A. W. Tozer, Dallas Willard, and N. T. Wright. Faith That Matters was designed to help you confidently walk in faith every day of the year.In today's fast-paced world, it's easy to get lost in a never-ending list of projects and deman ..."
Finding Our Sacred Center A journey to inner peace by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 64 Pages, Published 2011 by Twenty-Third Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-58595-847-4, ISBN: 1-58595-847-6
"It was January 1990, the dawn of a new decade, and Henri Nouwen, world-renowned spiritual writer, was in France but his writing wasn t going well. Frustrated and discouraged, he decided to go to Lourdes, even though it was the off season, to give his anxious heart a rest. This profoundly inspiring journal is the result of his three-day stay. Lourdes restored Nouwen s inner peace and helped him return to his sacred center. He realized, ..."
"In this beautiful work Henri Nouwen offers a penetrating reflection on the challenge of the spiritual life, especially the call to imitate Christ's example of "downward mobility." This vocation is sorely tested by the constant celebration of "upward mobility," which brings to mind the temptations Christ faced in the wilderness: to be "powerful, relevant, and spectacular."To prepare us for this path, Nouwen describes the "disciplines o ..."
Peacework(1st Edition) Prayer, Resistance, Community by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 127 Pages, Published 2005 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57075-593-4, ISBN: 1-57075-593-0
"Henri Nouwen wrote this book twenty years ago, as his personal response in a time of heightening Cold War tensions. Its publication now, in a new era of fear and violence, is particularly timely. On the one hand "Peacework" represents a passionate call to all Christians to embrace Jesus' ethic of peacemaking as an "unconditional, unlimited, and uncompromising" demand. But Nouwen goes on to show that, peacemaking is more than a matter of ..."
"One of the most popular of contemporary spiritual writers offers a profound and beautiful reflection on the meaning of the Eucharist for ourselves and our communities. The word "eucharist", Nouwen tells us, originally comes from the Greek for "thanksgiving". And while the ancient source provides one dimension of the Christian experience, Nouwen finds that the wisdom of prior insights no longer suffices in a world changing as rapidly as ..."
Jesus(2nd Edition) A Gospel by Michael O'laughlin, HenriNouwen Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 2001 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57075-384-8, ISBN: 1-57075-384-9
"Beloved spiritual writer Henri Nouwen is our guide in this unique retelling of the gospel story. Seamlessly woven from his many writings, Jesus juxtaposes gospel texts with Nouwen s own reflections on the life of Jesus. As Michael O Laughlin notes in his introduction, What the early church called the good news was often communicated by one person reaching out to another. . . This is what Henri Nouwen did. He was a teacher, a man sent fr ..."
"In times of suffering, simplistic answers ring empty and hollow. But Henri Nouwen, beloved spiritual thinker and author, offers real comfort in the concrete truth of God's constancy. Nouwen suggests that by greeting life's pains with something other than despair, we can find surprising joy in our suffering. He suggests that the way through suffering is not in denial, but rather in living fully in the midst of the trials life brings o ..."
Adam(1st Edition) God's Beloved by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 128 Pages, Published 1997 by Orbis Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57075-133-2, ISBN: 1-57075-133-1
"Henri Nouwen completed Adam: God's Beloved just weeks before his death in 1996. It is a personal memoir about his friendship with Adam, a severely handicapped man he knew at the L'Arche Daybreak Community in Canada. Although Adam could not speak and was wracked with violent seizures, Nouwen called Adam "my friend, my teacher, and my guide," and credited Adam with renewing his faith in a particularly dark period of life. Thanks to ..."
The Inner Voice of Love(1st Edition) A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 118 Pages, Published 1996 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-48589-0, ISBN: 0-385-48589-1
"This is Henri Nouwen's "secret journal." It was written during the most difficult period of his life, when he suddenly lost his self-esteem, his energy to live and work, his sense of being loved, even his hope in God. Although he experienced excruciating anguish and despair, he was still able to keep a journal in which he wrote a spiritual imperative to himself each day that emerged from his conversations with friends and supporters.F ..."
The Return of the Prodigal Son A Story of Homecoming by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 142 Pages, Published 1996 by Continuum Intl Pub Group ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-0870-9, ISBN: 0-8264-0870-2
"A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell. In seizing the inspiration that came to him through Rembrandt's depiction of the powerful Gospel story, Henri Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable: the yo ..."
The Return of the Prodigal Son(1st Edition) A Story of Homecoming by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 142 Pages, Published 1992 by Doubleday Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-385-41867-6, ISBN: 0-385-41867-1
"A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal and resonant meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell.
In seizing the inspiration that came to him through Rembrandt's depiction of the powerful Gospel story, Henri Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable; the ..."
Return of the Prodigal Son(1st Edition) A Story of Homecoming by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1992 by Darton Longman And Todd ISBN-13: 978-0-232-52002-6, ISBN: 0-232-52002-X
"A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has chosen to dwell. This Lent course, which has been adapted from the book, helps us to reflect on the meaning of the parable for our own lives. ..."
Gracias(1st Edition) A Latin American Journal by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 188 Pages, Published 1989 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-066318-6, ISBN: 0-06-066318-9
"In this journal of his travels in Bolivia and Peru, Nouwen ponders the presence of God in the poor, the challenge of a persecuted church, the relation between faith and justice, and his own struggle to discern the path along which God is calling him. "Nouwen puts his inexhaustible curiosity and hunger for religious experience gladly at the service of a worldwide audience."--The Boston Globe."
Letters to Marc About Jesus(1st Edition) by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 1988 by Harperone ISBN-13: 978-0-06-066315-5, ISBN: 0-06-066315-4
"“[We] read Nouwen…to discover new possibilities in our faith.”—New Review of Books and ReligionA profound and beautiful collection of intimate writings, Henry J.M. Nouwen’s Letters to Marc About Jesus recalls the author’s correspondences with his teenage nephew, a boy struggling with issues of faith and spirituality in an apathetic age. The much-beloved author of The Wounded Healer and With Open Hands—named alongside such notables as C. ..."
The Road to Daybreak(1st Edition) by HenriNouwen Hardcover, 228 Pages, Published 1988 by Doubleday ISBN-13: 978-0-385-24553-1, ISBN: 0-385-24553-X
"This is Henri Nouwen's intimate diary of the year he spent at L'Arche, a community where care is provided for mentally ill and retarded adults. Here he recounts the struggles and self-doubts he faced along the road to a new vocation."