Love, Henri

  • Year 2016
  • Type Letter
  • Genre spiritual formation
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language English

For For readers who already know Nouwen and want his counsel in its most personal form; not for a first introduction to his thought.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

A selection of his previously unpublished letters to friends and readers over two decades: counsel on vocation, prayer, suffering and friendship.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 0 of 5
  • Scriptural 1 of 5
  • Experiential 5 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life (Convergent, 2016) is a selection of Henri Nouwen's previously unpublished letters, edited by Gabrielle Earnshaw, who had been the archivist of his papers, with a foreword by Brené Brown. The letters, written to friends, parishioners, students and readers, span more than two decades, from his early career to his last years at L'Arche Daybreak, and they take up vocation, solitude, prayer, suffering, loneliness, friendship and perseverance. They show Nouwen as a spiritual counsellor to individuals, writing personally to people who had written to him.

Catalog IDW.0FSZ1W.9

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