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Jean Vanier : Portrait of a Free Man by Anne-Sophie Constant (2019, Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Jean Vanier : Portrait of a Free Man
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Biography
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Publisher
- Plough Publishing House
- Genre
- Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN
- 9780874861402
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Topic
- People with Disabilities, Philanthropy & Charity, Social Activists, Christian Life / Social Issues
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 250 Pages
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Publisher
Plough Publishing House
ISBN-10
0874861403
ISBN-13
9780874861402
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038708732
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jean Vanier : Portrait of a Free Man
Number of Pages
250 Pages
Language
English
Topic
People with Disabilities, Philanthropy & Charity, Social Activists, Christian Life / Social Issues
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Religion, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-061619
Reviews
Vanier radiates the strength of a man who has fought his own inner battles and surfaced with peace....[He] continues to chip away at our fear of difference. --Maclean's, Constant, a close friend of Vanier and former lecturer at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, has created a biography of lasting value. The work conveys the restless wandering and the solidity of conviction of a fully realized life. Vanier, a man of deep sincerity and integrity, is worth getting to know. Recommended for anyone interested in spiritual biographies and a life of service to humanity.-- Library Journal, In explaining Vanier's "crazy story" of coming to find freedom and joy in working with those who are severely disabled, Anne-Sophie Constant shows how his deep faith always guided him during more than a half-century leading L'Arche. From the intimate perspective of one of Vanier's closest confidantes, this brief biography paints a glowing, complex portrait of a remarkable life. -- Publishers Weekly, Again and again, the decisions Vanier made were foolish in the eyes of the world. They always were directed towards those the world insists are weak. He was primed for a life of noble service in the military and diplomatic corps and squandered that to pray. He was primed for a life of virtuous study in the academy and squandered that to bathe people. In founding L'Arche, he did not intend to care for people with disabilities. He intended to live with them. The difference between those two positions is night and day. --Mere Orthodoxy, Jean Vanier's life's work is not a book - though he has written many - but a community, L'Arche, where the disabled are welcomed and treated as being of equal worth, perhaps greater worth, than their helpers. More philosophers should be that way, and certainly more theologians.-- The Guardian, Every time one meets Jean Vanier, one has a sense of new horizons opening up, of a new vision opening before one's eyes of what it is to be human and of what it is to be in a community. --Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
Table Of Content
Table of Contents: Introduction 1--Child of War 2--Navy Officer 3--The Disciple 4--The Founder 5--The Spiritual Master 6--The Pilgrim of the World 7--The Messenger 8--Conclusion
Synopsis
It's a crazy story. In August 1964 a young Canadian who had already been a naval-officer and a professor took up residence with two men with intellectual disabilities in a little house in a French village. He called their new home L'Arche (the Ark). He had no plan, but felt he had to respond to the silent cry of these men, whom he had found shut up in a gloomy violent institution. His example was contagious; within months the community had grown to over fifty people, and today there are one hundred and fifty L'Arche communities on five continents. Anne-Sophie Constant paints a colorful portrait of this extraordinary man and the events that shaped him. She captures the essence of Jean Vanier's example and message, which continues to call us to reclaim our humanity, swim against the stream, and stand up for the dignity of every person. Book jacket., The life of Jean Vanier, founder of l'Arche, who changed the way the world views disability It's a crazy story. In August 1964 a thirty-six-year-old Canadian from a famous family - one who has already joined the navy during war at age thirteen, become an officer, earned a PhD, and taught ethics at the University of Toronto -- takes up residence in a little house he just bought in the village of Trosly, France, with two mentally disabled men he has removed from a care home. The house, which he calls l'Arche (the Ark), has neither water nor electricity. His plan? None. He is just convinced he has to do it, touched by the silent cry of these men shut up in the gloomy, violent institution where he found them. His example is contagious; within months the community has grown to over fifty. Jean Vanier is known and loved around the world for having created L'Arche, those unique communities of people with disabilities and their volunteer caregivers in more than one hundred and fifty sites on five continents. But Vanier is also a philosopher, a spiritual master who touches believers and nonbelievers alike, a tireless messenger of peace and ecumenism, and an adventurer with life full of twists and turns. Anne-Sophie Constant's literary biography paints a rare portrait of this extraordinary man and the events and influences that shaped his destiny. "The story of Jean Vanier is the story of a free man - a man who knew how to become himself, who knew how to free himself from restraints, opinions, and prejudices; from intellectual, religious or moral habits; from his epoch; from popular opinion. . . . Jean Vanier has transformed the lives of thousands and thousands of mentally disabled people. And he has transformed the understanding of thousands of people regarding the disabilities of their own children and of people with disabilities. Where we see only failure, disgrace, impossibility, limit, weakness, ugliness, and suffering, Jean Vanier sees beauty. And he knows how to open the eyes of others to see it.", Winner of the Templeton prize in 2015.Mentor to Henri Nouwen and founder of the L'Arche community, which featured prominently in Nouwen's life.Subject of the recent film Summer in the Forest.Timely release: as Vanier nears the end of his life, his followers and media will be looking for material on his life and accomplishments., Vanier is known and loved around the world for having created L'Arche, those unique communities of people with disabilities and their volunteer caregivers in more than 150 sites on five continents. Constant's literary biography paints a rare portrait of this extraordinary man and the events and influences that shaped his destiny.
LC Classification Number
BX4705.V34C6613 2019
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