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The following is excerpted from our manual CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM: A POWERFUL ECUMENICAL BOND. www.wayoflife.org
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HenriJ.M. Nouwen (1932-1996) was a Roman Catholic priest who taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of Notre Dame. Nouwen has had a wide-ranging influence within the emerging church and evangelicalism at big through his writings, and he has been an formative voice within the contemplative movement. A Christian Century magazine survey conducted in 2003 found that Nouwen’s writings were a first selection for Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy. Nouwen is promoted by Christian leaders as diverse as Robert Schuller and Rick Warren (who highly recommends Nouwen’s contemplative book In the Name of Jesus).
Nouwen’s biographer said that he “had a queer orientation” (Michael Ford, Wounded Prophet, 1999).
Nouwen did not instruct his readers that one must be born again through repentance and personal faith in Jesus Christ in instruct to commune with God. The guide With Open Hands, for example, instructs readers to accessible themselves up to God and surrender to the flow of life, believing that God loves them uncon
Andrew Sullivan’s new book, Virtually Normal: An Argument about homosexuality, is on of the most intelligent and convincing pleas for finish social acceptability I have ever read.
Andrew Sullivan is a Catholic. He is just as unlock about being a Catholic as he is about being a homosexual. From his writing it becomes clear that he is not only a Catholic but also a deeply committed Catholic who takes his church’s education quite seriously. That makes his discussion of the church’s attitude toward homosexuality very compelling.
My hold thoughts and emotions around this subject are very conflicted. Years of Catholic education and seminary training have caused me to internalize the Catholic Church’s position. Still, my emotional development and my friendships with many gay people, as well as the recent literature on the subject, have raised many questions for me. There is a vast gap between my internalized homophobia and my increasing conviction that homosexuality is not a curse but a blessing for our society. Andrew Sullivan is starting to help me to bridge this gap.
– Nouwen, Sabbatical Journey, p27
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Summary: A biography of Nouwen by a late-in-life companion (and journalist), which helps to give context to Nouwen’s prolific writing.
Like many, I have been impacted by Nouwen’s writing, but especially after reading several posthumously published books, I realized I needed more biographical context to perceive what Nouwen was about.
It is incredible that more than 25 years after his death, new books are still being edited from his vast writing. (The most recent of which is Flying, Falling, Catching.) I am mixed on these posthumous books. I don’t think any of the ones I have read stand up to the best of his books published while he was alive. But they are also superior than the worst of his books as good. Nouwen wrote an huge volume of books. According to Wikipedia, he published 42 books while alive, not including 35 additional books to which he contributed an introduction, afterward, or chapter. And there have been 31 additional books of posthumous operate or compilations.
Part of what Ford makes clear is that while Nouwen strived to live up to his writing, there was a disconnect.
“It is also difficult to explain the author without acknowledging
I was recently sent a talk by a popular Christian speaker in which the speaker mutual the following critique of gay Christianity, bringing a powerful charge against Wesley Hill and others from Spiritual Friendship, who are attempting to live chaste lives as celibate gay Christians. Here is an excerpt:
I shudder to consider about how much more rigorous, painful, dangerous, and hard my conversion would have been had it taken place in 2016… Why? Well, if my conversion to Christ had taken place in 2016 and not 2009, likely I might contain been told that I was a gay Christian….
I likely would have been told I was just a same-sex attracted Christian and there are two tracks in life for a gay Christian like me. I can have “Side A” with Matthew vines, Justin Lee and the Queer Christian Network – embracing a revisionist biblical understanding that Scripture is neither inerrant, inspired, nor trustworthy and affirms the goodness of gay sexual relationships. Or, hey, I could go “Side B” with Wesley Hill and the Spiritual Friendship gang, where I would learn that my sexual desires for women were sanctifiable and redeemable making me a improve friend to one and all.