Adam: Gods Beloved 25th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by Robert Ellsberg Nouwen Henri
Adam: Gods Beloved 25th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by Robert Ellsberg Nouwen Henri In the year before his unexpected death in 1996, Henri Nouwen set out to write a book about the Creed.…
Specifikacia Adam: Gods Beloved 25th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by Robert Ellsberg Nouwen Henri
Adam: Gods Beloved 25th Anniversary Edition with a New Afterword by Robert Ellsberg Nouwen Henri
In the year before his unexpected death in 1996, Henri Nouwen set out to write a book about the Creed. Adam could not speak or even move without assistance. His plans changed when he learned of the death of his friend Adam Arnett, a profoundly handicapped young man from the L'Arche Daybreak Community where Nouwen lived.
And yet, for Nouwen, Adam became "my friend, my teacher, and my guide." It was Adam who led Nouwen to a new understanding of his faith and what it means to be Beloved of God. Gripped by frequent seizures, he spent his life in obscurity. Through the story of Adam, Nouwen found a new way to tell God's story of Jesus and the story of all of us human creatures, broken and yet beloved, who live in a world charged with the mystery of God's love.
In an afterword to this edition, Robert Ellsberg, Nouwen's editor, writes: "In rereading Adam, I am struck by how much it represents