Adam Gods Beloved, Henri Nouwen
Adam Gods Beloved, Henri Nouwen
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Adam: God's Beloved

Author: Henri Nouwen

Narrator: Gary Westphalen

Unabridged: 4 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Learn25

Published: 11/23/2020


Synopsis

From the best-selling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son, essential listening for Catholics, other Christians, and all spiritual seekers.

In the final year before his death in 1996, Henri Nouwen wrote an account of the death of his friend Adam, a severely handicapped young man from L'Arche. In the story of Adam he found a way to describe his own understanding of the Gospel message. Adam could not speak or even move without assistance. Gripped by frequent seizures, he spent his life in obscurity. And yet, for Nouwen, he became his friend, teacher, and guide. It was Adam who led Nouwen to a new understanding of his faith and what it means to be Beloved of God. 

Through this story, Nouwen found a new way to tell God's story and the story of all of us human creatures, broken and yet beloved, who live in a world charged and alive with the mystery of God's love. Completed only weeks before Nouwen’s own death, Adam became a final, precious gift, a fitting reflection of his own message and legacy.  

Available as an audiobook for the first time ever, Adam: God’s Beloved, invites you to rediscover in your own life what it means to be God’s Beloved.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection which includes several original titles by Henri Nouwen.

About Henri Nouwen

Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) was the author of With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, and many other bestsellers. He was the senior pastor of L’Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with mental disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Faith on April 24, 2018

Adam: God's Beloved was a beautiful read. I've been longing to read some Henri Nouwen after repeatedly encountering excerpts of his and I found this title at the college library. This is the final book he wrote before passing away and it describes his experiences at L'Arche Daybreak Community. He ser......more

Goodreads review by Will on November 05, 2022

I read this in 3 hours on a train and will be thinking about it for months and years to come......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on October 09, 2017

Some people that review this say that they wanted more. But that is the opposite of what the book is. It is about the life of a young disabled man that, because of his disability, somehow brings others closer to God. It is his very limited ability that serves that purpose - the emptiness of opening......more

Goodreads review by Grace on December 23, 2023

Nouwen’s greatest work. Simple, profound, and inspired, I was changed by reading this book.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on January 05, 2025

This was stunning—a beautiful picture of how mutually good and fruitful it is to be in close relationship with people living with disabilities. might just start handing out copies.......more