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A Blessed Weakness
Michael Downey
其他書名
The Spirit of Jean Vanier and L'Arche
出版Harper & Row, 1986
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralReligion / Institutions & OrganizationsSocial Science / People with Disabilities
ISBN00606201109780060620110
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pP3YAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"...Jean Vanier has spent the last twenty years bringing hope to the handicapped. In august 1964, he bought a house in rural France, invited two mentally retarded adults to live there with him, and called his little community l'Arche (the ark). Today, there are sixty loosely affiliated l'Arche communities around the world that have become-for the handicapped and nonhandicapped alike-havens of hope, love, and a unique spirituality. In Blessed Weakness, Michael Downey recounts the story of this brilliant and privileged man who, unfulfilled by wealth and intellectual achievement, rejected a life of security to minister to the handicapped. His l'Arche communities-family-like settlements where the handicapped and nonhandicapped share their lives in mutual help and service-demonstrate that the people society routinely cases aside have much to teach us. His works and writings reveal how, even in the humblest circumstances, the Christian ideal of the Beatitudes can be lived out..." -- Dust jacket.