Making All Things New and Other Classics - Softcover

Nouwen, Henri J. M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006281702 ISBN 13: 9780006281702

Publisher: Zondervan, 2000

Synopsis

'If you are willing to live a life of prayer and practise the disciplines of solitude and community, a new hunger will make itself known. This new hunger is the first sign of God's presence.' Henri Nouwen is much loved for his profound but simple insight on Christian spirituality. Making All Things New and Other Classics contains four of his short books focusing on different aspects of the Christian life. lives are over-full and over-burdened, yet who yearn to experience more of God's presence. Intimacy answers pastoral questions with an underlying theme of intimacy in relation to God and other people. A Letter of Consolation explores very personally the subject of bereavement in the form of a letter by Henri Nouwen to his father following his mother's death. In The Living Reminder he looks at the seamless connection between spirituality and ministry. overflow from his gentle observations and wise insight.

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Review:

How can we be still and hear God's word in our frenetic world? How can we be intimate with each other without being hurt? How do we deal with death in a society in thrall to youth? Of what use is a minister to an increasingly secular population? If you've ever asked these questions, then Christian writer and lecturer Henri Nouwen has some robust answers in the four books which comprise this volume.

Making All Things New deals with building an internal spiritual life against a backdrop of external demands. Nouwen points out that in order to be at peace, Christ does not ask us to withdraw from the world, only that we should realign our lives with Him at the centre.

In Intimacy, Nouwen not only considers how we relate to Christ but how we relate to our fellow human beings. Again, he is concerned with the balance between the internal and external, covering such areas as intimacy and sexuality, intimacy and prayer, intimacy and community and intimacy and the ministry.

A Letter of Consolation is Nouwen's own intimate reaching out to his father following the death of his mother. Offering comfort and healing to anyone grappling with bereavement, this letter is Nouwen's attempt to make sense of her death.

Finally, the idea of healing continues in The Living Reminder, which looks at the psychological guidance and healing a minister can bring to his congregation. Nouwen's writing is always challenging--these four inspiring books offer one uplifting read. --Amanda Cameron

About this edition

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0006281702
• ISBN 13: 9780006281702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286