Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit

Written by Henri Nouwen

Narrated by Joe Abbey-Colborne

From the best-selling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son, essential listening for Christians, Catholics, and all spiritual seekers.

You are no doubt familiar with beloved spiritual master Henri Nouwen, who published 40 highly influential books during his lifetime. Now you can glean additional insights from three edifying Nouwen works published posthumously.

Each session was carefully prepared by Dr. Michael Christensen, an award-winning professor of Christian ministry and practice, and Dr. Rebecca Laird, who was Nouwen’s student at Yale Divinity School. Each volume of The Nouwen Trilogy collects Nouwen’s unpublished homilies, interviews, classes, and speeches, as well as excerpts from his published writings. Editing these works into a definitive guide to the Christian life, Drs. Christensen and Laird memorialize his popular teachings.

Spiritual Formation: Following the Movements of the Spirit is part of this trilogy. Available for the first time in audio format, these convenient sessions move you through the five stages of spiritual development: awakening, purgation, illumination, dark night, and unification.

The audiobook is performed by Joe Abbey-Colborne, a veteran of pastoral ministry who played Nouwen in Gabrielle Earnshaw’s presentation Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life with the Henri Nouwen Society.
 
Enhance your spiritual development with Nouwen’s wisdom today.

This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Learn25
• Release date: May 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781632517791

Henri Nouwen

Henri J. M. Nouwen (1932-1996) was the author of With Open Hands, Reaching Out, The Wounded Healer, Making All Things New, and many other bestsellers. He was the senior pastor of L’Arche Daybreak in Toronto, Canada, a community where men and women with mental disabilities and their assistants create a home for one another.

Reviews for Spiritual Formation

[Edmund Saley · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fragments of reflection after reading “Spiritual Formation” by Henri Nouwen. On the whole I found Nouwen’s reflections very encouraging. A key idea that remains with me is “wasting time with God” as a positive countercultural attitude of a disciple of Christ. The narrator reminds me of a narration I heard of John of the Cross. Nouwen’s reflections have a similar tone, and a similar tradition. A few rare times in the meditations his comments sound shockingly liberal, and I wonder what barriers are important, or if any barriers are important at all. What should be our view of other religions? How about homosexuality? I would like to hear more of what he has to say.