Adam: God's Beloved 25th Anniversary Edition With a New Afterword by Robert Ellsberg

by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Overview

In the year before his unexpected death in 1996, Henri Nouwen set out to write a book about the Creed. His plans changed when he learned of the death of his friend Adam Arnett, a profoundly handicapped young man from the L’Arche Daybreak Community where Nouwen lived. Adam could not speak or even move without assistance. Gripped by frequent seizures, he spent his life in obscurity. And yet, for Nouwen, Adam became “my friend, my teacher, and my guide.” It was Adam who led Nouwen to a new understanding of his faith and what it means to be Beloved of God. Through the story of Adam, Nouwen found a new way to tell God’s story of Jesus and the story of all of us human creatures, broken and yet beloved, who live in a world charged with the mystery of God’s love. In an afterword to this edition, Robert Ellsberg, Nouwen’s editor, writes: “In rereading Adam, I am struck by how much it represents not only the final distillation of Henri’s fundamental message, but also a key to interpreting everything that went before.” In the story of Adam, Nouwen found a new way of expressing his Creed, and offered it in the hope “that many others, through Adam’s story will be enabled to recognize God’s story among us and so be empowered to say in a new way, ‘I believe.’”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626984936
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	11/03/2022
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	1,168,025
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	17 - 18 Years

About the Author

Henri J. M. Nouwen, a Dutch priest who spent most of his life in North America, is widely regarded as one of the most influential spiritual teachers of our time. His many books include The Return of the Prodigal Son, The Wounded Healer, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life, and Community.

Table of Contents

Foreword Sue Mosteller, CSJ 9

Introduction 13

Chapter 1 Adam's Hidden Life 19

Chapter 2 Adam's Desert 33

Chapter 3 Adam's Public Life 40

Chapter 4 Adam's Way 66

Chapter 5 Adam's Passion 83

Chapter 6 Adam's Death 92

Chapter 7 Adam's Wake and Burial 104

Chapter 8 Adam's Resurrection 116

Chapter 9 Adam's Spirit 122

Conclusion 126

Afterword to the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition Robert Ellsberg 129