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Authors: Henri Nouwen
ISBN-13: 9780385236829, ISBN-10: 0385236824
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Date Published: August 1986
Edition: Reissue
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.
Foreword | ||
Introduction | ||
Reaching Out to Our Innermost Self: The First Movement: From Loneliness to Solitude | 21 | |
Chapter 1 | A Suffocating Loneliness | 23 |
Chapter 2 | A Receptive Solitude | 37 |
Chapter 3 | A Creative Response | 49 |
Reaching Out to Our Fellow Human Beings: The Second Movement: From Hostility to Hospitality | 63 | |
Chapter 4 | Creating Space for Strangers | 65 |
Chapter 5 | Forms of Hospitality | 79 |
Chapter 6 | Hospitality and the Host | 101 |
Reaching Out to Our God: The Third Movement: From Illusion to Prayer | 111 | |
Chapter 7 | Prayer and Mortality | 113 |
Chapter 8 | The Prayer of the Heart | 133 |
Chapter 9 | Community and Prayer | 149 |
Conclusion | 161 | |
Notes | 163 |