Table of Contents
Foreword xv
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxvii
Henri J. M. Nouwen's Cited Works xxxi
Introduction 1
Part I Living with Inward Polarities (Psychological Tensions) 9
Chapter 1 True Self and False Self 11
Chapter 2 Self-Owning and Self-Giving 23
Chapter 3 Woundedness and Healing 32
Part II Living with Outward Polarities (Ministerial Tensions) 45
Chapter 4 Solitude and Community 47
Chapter 5 Compassion and Confrontation 59
Chapter 6 Presence and Absence 70
Part III Living with Upward Polarities (Theological Tensions) 81
Chapter 7 Suffering and Glory 83
Chapter 8 Present and Future 91
Chapter 9 Life and Death 98
Conclusion: Befriending Tension 109
Notes 119
Selected Bibliography 131
Index 133
