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Living Gently In A Violent World: The Prophetic Witness Of Weakness (2008)

by Stanley Hauerwas(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0830834524 (ISBN13: 9780830834525)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

IVP

review 1: Eftersom jag läste den svenska översättningen så blir min recension på svenska. En överraskande bok, som ger nya perspektiv. Hauerwas balanserar upp Vanier på ett bra sätt, och vice versa. En mjuk sida, och en pragmatisk, teologisk bild. Jag läste boken efter att ha läst Tomas Sjödins "när träden avlövas". Tomas har också skrivit förord till den svenska översättningen. Denna kombination gav ett fantastiskt djup.
review 2: 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 fe... morew 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. less

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