Henri J. M. Nouwen Libri

Per sette mesi nell’Abbazia di Genesee, Nouwen ha una occasione unica per esplorare gli interrogativi essenziali della vita dello spirito. Dalla prime settimane nell’Abbazia, dominate da desideri e da interessi contrastanti, fino ai giorni dell’Avvento, quando le giornate sono permeate di calma attesa, Nouwen non perde mai la sua onesta critica. Dotato di intuizione, pietoso, spesso umoristico, questo diario costituisce una ispirazione e una sfida per chi cerca se stesso.

Seven million copies of his books in print! This daily devotional from the bestselling author of such spiritual classics as The Return of the Prodigal Son and The Wounded Healer offers deep spiritual insight into human experience, intimacy, brokenness and mercy.

With over a million copies sold, this classic work is essential reading for all who ask, “Where has my struggle led me?” A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on an unforgettable 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. As Nouwen reflects on Rembrandt’s painting in light of his own life journey, he evokes a powerful drama of the classic parable in a rich, captivating way that is sure to reverberate in the hearts of readers. Nouwen probes the several movements of the parable: the younger son’s return, the father’s restoration of sonship, the elder son’s resentfulness, and the father’s compassion. The themes of homecoming, affirmation, and reconciliation will be newly discovered by all who have known loneliness, dejection, jealousy, or anger. The challenge to love as God loves, and to be loved as God’s beloved, will be seen as the ultimate revelation of the parable known to Christians throughout time, and is here represented with a vigor and power fresh for our times.

Two beautiful classics on the life of faith, from one of the twentieth century's most influential spiritual guides

Deeply comforting and profoundly realistic, Turn My Mourning into Dancing focuses on how you can survive hard times but still live fully in the midst of them and beyond. Nouwen points readers towards a way of life that is grounded in God's constancy and rooted in eternal hope.

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.For more than eight years, Henri Nouwen felt that what he wrote was too raw and private to share with others. Instead, he published The Return of the Prodigal Son, in which he expressed some of the insights gained during his mental and spiritual crisis. But then friends asked him, "Why keep your anguish hidden from the many people who have been nurtured by your writing? Wouldn't it be of consolation for many to know about the fierce inner battle that lies underneath so many of your spiritual insights?"For the countless men and women who have to live through the pain of broken relationships, or who suffer from the loss of a loved one, this book about the inner voice of love offers new courage, new hope, even new life.

Drawing on the celebrated spiritual writer's uncollected essays and transcripts of talks previously unavailable, Communityoffers readers the book Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) never his priceless insights on what Christian community means, and how to achieve it.