Books : Adam: God's Beloved
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by: Henri J. M. Nouwen
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 248.863092
EAN: 9781570751332
ISBN: 1570751331
Label: Orbis Books
Manufacturer: Orbis Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 1997-10
Publisher: Orbis Books
Sales Rank: 224581
Studio: Orbis Books
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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 Adam, Nouwen came to understand the central questions of Christian theology in a way that transcended all statements of belief, and instead found joy in the mere gift of human existence. --Michael Joseph Gross
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Inspiring Text
This text by Henri Nouwen will touch the soul of your being and recognize that Christ lives in the most humblest and forgotten around us.
Rating:  - Simple book with a simple message
Henry Nouwen, professor of spirituality at some of America's most prestigious universities, the writer of numerous popular-yet-subtle theological and reflective works, found his greatest calling in his daily care of Adam Arnett, a severely disabled man. Nouwen was charged with caring for Adam for 2 hours a day at L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, a home where caregivers lived together with those they cared for.This biographical sketch of Adam's life and death was Nouwen's final work before his own death ... Read More
Rating: - Nouwen At His Personal Best
ADAM: GOD'S BELOVED may not be Henri Nouwen as a writer at his best, but in many ways it is Henri Nouwen as a priest and a person at his best. I know that this sounds like a contradiction, but a reading of the introduction of the book by Sue Mosteller explains some of the difficulties of this book. First, it was a bit of a rush job and the version we have today may not have been the final version had Nouwen not died prior to its publication. Even his last editor Robert Ellsberg in an article called ... Read More
Rating:  - Polite Dissent
I'm the father of an eight-year old boy with Down Syndrome. I cherish and value the disabled. I wanted to love this book, which tells the story of the author's relationship with a severely disabled man. But, really, honestly, it isn't that good. It was unfinished at Nouwen's death and retains a half-baked, rushed quality. There is remarkably little description of Adam's everyday life: indeed, for every sentence about Adam, there must be three or four about Nouwen's interior life. At times, Nouwen ... Read More
Rating: - Book was Great
This book was recommended by a neighborhood childhood friend who I greatly respect, and I ended up greatly respecting this book.
It's a deeply moving account of what it is like to live day by day with a severely disabled man named Adam. In Adam, the priest, Henri Nouwen, finds a spiritual treasure, a new way of looking at the world, that transcends his immersion in religion so far in his life. As the father of an autistic child, I was brought to quiet tears many times. He saw Adam as a great teacher, ... Read More
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