Braden Christensen từ Patode Wadgaon, Maharashtra, India

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2018-10-17 08:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Katarina Mazetti

This was my introduction to Nouwen. I'd never have guessed that an Ivy League prof would write (or maybe even could write) such unadorned prose. Nouwen witnessed the titular Rembrandt painting at a museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and was transfixed by it. In this tome, he looks at the biblical story that provides the scene depicted, but he does it from the perspectives of all three central players: the prodigal son, his "Where's mine?"-crying brother, and the father. Each is treated to his own chapter, Nouwen going behind the eyes and then relating their takes on the situation to goings-on in his own life. He finds that, for better and worse, we resemble each of these men at different times in our lives. His writing is warm and endearing. Can I say that it felt like this book was hugging me? It did. Nouwen leaves the rigorous theologizing to others, or to others books, and goes for the heart. He doesn't discount the head, though. He is convincing when sharing of his respite at the L'Arch community for disabled people in Toronto, where he stayed until his death. In those sections he tells of how the mentally and physically handicapped there were prone to envelope him in physical affection, in effect hugging and loving the life back into him. Believe it. (I look forward to reading The Wounded Healer next from him. In it he posits that "The only true healer is a wounded healer" when it comes to the fires of this life.)

Người đọc Braden Christensen từ Patode Wadgaon, Maharashtra, India

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.