About this title: The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. Theologian Stanley Hauerwas collaborates with Jean Vanier, founder of the worldwide L'Arche communities, to explore how Christians can embody a different way of being--one marked by gentleness, peacemaking and faithfulness.
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Publisher: IVP Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780830834525ISBN:0830834524
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Publisher: Ivp Books
Date Published: 2008-11-30
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Intervarsity Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780830834525ISBN:0830834524
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Intervarsity Pr
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780830834525ISBN:0830834524
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"I picked this one up after Laura's recommendation, and I've been thinking about a "theology of disability," so I was intrigued to see what Vanier and Hauerwas had to say on the subject. The book was definitely too short, and I liked Vanier's chapters more than Hauerwas', but it was a good intro into the topic. Here are a few of my take-away favorites:
-There are three activities that are absolutely vital in the creation of community. The first is eating together around the same table. The second is praying together. And the third is celebrating together.
-Another person in L'Arche in Australia was working with people in the world of prostitution, and she had been walking with a particular young man for quite some time. One day she was going through a park in Sydney and found him dying of an overdose. As she knelt beside him, he said to her, "You have always wanted to change me. You have never accepted me as I am." Can we accept and love people with disabilities as they are?
-I know a man who lives in Paris. His wife has Alzheimer's. He was an important businessman - his life filled with busyness. But he said that when his wife fell sick, "I couldn't put her into an institution, so I keep her. I feed her. I bathe her." I went to Paris to visit them, and this businessman who had been very busy all his life said, "I have changed. I have become more human." I got a letter from him recently. He said that in the middle of the night his wife woke him up. She came out of the fog for a moment, and she said, "Darling, I just want to say thank you for all you're doing for me." Then she fell back into the fog. He said, "I wept and wept."
-As we live with people who have been crushed, as we begin to welcome the stranger, we will gradually discover the stranger inside of us. When we welcome the broken outside, they call us to discover the broken inside. We cannot really enter into relationship with people who are broken unless somehow we deal with our own brokenness.
-Paul, in 1 Corinthians 12, compares the human body to the body of Christ, and he says that those parts of the body that are the weakest and least presentable are indispensable to the body. In other words, people who are the weakest and the least presentable are indispensable to the church. I have never seen this as the first line of a book on ecclesiology. Who really believes it? But this is the heart of faith, of what it means to be the church. Do we really believe that the weakest, the least presentable, those we hide away - that they are indispensable? If that was our vision of the church, it would change many things."
"Definitely worth reading. I really loved the Vanier parts. Hauerwas was his usual self- sometimes interesting, sometimes deep, sometimes boring, a lot of the time hard to really related to practical life. I really enjoy this subject matter and want to read more of it."
"Vanier: "We are afraid of weakness. We are afraid of not succeeding. Deep inside we are afraid of not being recognized. So we pretend we are the best. We hide behind power" (64). Hauerwas: "we don't get to make our lives up. We get to receive our lives as gifts... To be human is to learn that we don't get to make up our lives because we're creatures... Christian discipleship is about learning to receive our lives as gifts without regret" (93)."
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