| Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring Contributor(s): Nouwen, Henri J. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061800260 ISBN-13: 9780061800269 Publisher: HarperOne OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: From the author of The Wounded Healer and Letters to Marc About Jesus comes a critically acclaimed and deeply moving look at human mortality that reveals the essential gifts the living and the dying can give to one another. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Religion | Devotional - Psychology |
| Dewey: 242.4 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.2" W x 7.7" (0.22 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Catholic - Theometrics - Evangelical - Theometrics - Mainline |
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| Publisher Description: One of the best-loved spiritual writers of our time--an author ranked with C.S. Lewis and Thomas Merton--Henry J.M. Nowuen, takes a moving, personal look at human mortality in Our Greatest Gift. A meditation on dying and caring, Our Greatest Gift gently and eloquently reveals the gifts that the living and dying can give to one another. The beloved bestselling author of With Open Hands, The Wounded Healer, and Making All Things New shares his own experiences with aging, loss, grief, and fear in this important and life-altering work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Nouwen, Henri J. M.: - Henri J.M. Nouwen was a world-renowned spiritual guide, counselor, and bestselling author of over forty books that many today consider spiritual classics. He taught at the universities of Harvard, Yale, and Notre Dame before becoming the senior pastor of L'Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with intellectual disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another. |