Reaching Out The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
by Nouwen, Henri J. M.Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1986-08-05
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Summary
With clarity and deep spiritual insight, this religious bestseller offers today's Christian a perceptive, systematic plan for living the spiritual life achieving union with God.
Author Biography
Henri J. M. Nouwen is a Catholic priest who has taught at several theological institutes and universities in his home country of the Netherlands and in the United States. He now shares his life with people with mental disabilities at the L'Arche-Daybreak Community in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of many books on the spiritual life
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Reaching Out to Our Innermost Self: The First Movement: From Loneliness to Solitude | p. 21 |
| A Suffocating Loneliness | p. 23 |
| A Receptive Solitude | p. 37 |
| A Creative Response | p. 49 |
| Reaching Out to Our Fellow Human Beings: The Second Movement: From Hostility to Hospitality | p. 63 |
| Creating Space for Strangers | p. 65 |
| Forms of Hospitality | p. 79 |
| Hospitality and the Host | p. 101 |
| Reaching Out to Our God: The Third Movement: From Illusion to Prayer | p. 111 |
| Prayer and Mortality | p. 113 |
| The Prayer of the Heart | p. 133 |
| Community and Prayer | p. 149 |
| Conclusion | p. 161 |
| Notes | p. 163 |
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