The Path of Freedom

By Henri J.M. Nouwen

Book Overview

The great spiritual guide, Henri Nouwen, elaborates on the insight that true freedom comes to us when we grasp the truth that God loves us unconditionally and we are liberated from the personal need... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824520017
• ISBN13: 9780824520014
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Crossroad Pub Co
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 0.5" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

To The Point.

This book is short--very short. You could easily read it in less than half and hour. But don't let the length fool you. The Path of Freedom is a typical Henri Nouwen book where he cuts right to the heart of the matter: the struggle we experience to let go of the things that bind us and keep us from being truly who we were created to be in this world and how to begin NOW to live out the freedom that we as Christians will have in the next. In wonderful Nouwen fashion, he speaks more to our hearts about who God is and who we are rather than giving practical, tangible advice. Henri bares his soul to us in this book, and talks about the main struggles in his life (related to his belovedness/identity) in the context of an accident that brought him close to death. This, like almost every Nouwen book, is a shining example of what it looks like to truly be a wounded healer. He uses his struggles and vulnerability to point us towards the Goodness of God and the True path of Freedom.

Short and Sweet

Henri J.M. Nouwen is a curious Christian. Although he frames the answers to most of his problems and questions in Christ, his heart and soul speak from a point of reference that is not common among self-professed christians.In this SHORT AND SWEET book Nouwen shares spiritual revelation that he received as the result of an accident that put him in the hospital facing his own death.The power of this book is not, in my opinion, the revelation that Henri Nouwen received,but in his sharing of his experience he sets forth a framework for us to explore the spiritual mysteries that are present, but perhaps unharvested in our own lives.