The Living Reminder

by Henri Nouwen

  • Year 1977
  • Type Book
  • Genre pastoral theology
  • Tradition Catholic
  • Original language English

For For pastors, chaplains and those who train them; not for general readers looking for a devotional book.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5 moderate

His short book on the minister as a living reminder of Christ, worked out through the pastoral tasks of healing, sustaining and guiding.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 2 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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

The Living Reminder: Service and Prayer in Memory of Jesus Christ (Seabury, 1977) is the third of Henri Nouwen's early books on ministry, after Creative Ministry and The Wounded Healer. Its central image is the minister as a living reminder of Jesus Christ, whose service is to keep the memory of Christ alive among people. Nouwen develops this through the classical pastoral tasks of healing, sustaining and guiding, asking how each can be understood as a work of remembering, and he insists that ministers can only remind others of God if they themselves live in prayer and solitude. It was later reissued in the omnibus Ministry and Spirituality.

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Catalog IDW.7958RC.G

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