Making All Things New

Year 1981
Type Book
Genre spiritual formation
Tradition Catholic
Original language English

For For readers new to the spiritual life who feel overfull and restless; not for those already well read in spiritual disciplines.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 5 of 5 essential
For the researcher: 2 of 5 useful
Difficulty: 0 of 5 easy

A short invitation to the spiritual life for busy, worried people, built on Jesus's words about not worrying and on the disciplines of solitude and community.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 3 of 5
Experiential 4 of 5
Sociological 2 of 5
Historical 0 of 5

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

Making All Things New: An Invitation to the Spiritual Life (Harper & Row, 1981) is a short introduction to the spiritual life. Henri Nouwen begins with the worry and busyness that fill modern lives, in which people are occupied but unfulfilled, and sets against them Jesus's call not to worry but to set one's heart on the kingdom of God. The spiritual life, he argues, is a life in the Spirit lived in the midst of ordinary activity, and he names two disciplines that make room for it: solitude and community. The book is brief, written for readers with little background, and has often been used as a first book on the spiritual life.

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