ISBN: 0809127512
Godina izdanja: 1985
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Jean Vanier - Man and Woman He Made Them
Paulist Press, 1985
177 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Jean Vanier examines the significance and sources of human sexuality. Drawing on his years of experience of Christian community life with and for people with disabilities, he explores the implications of the relationship of man and woman from a Christian and community standpoint.
When Vanier speaks of the cry for love within a person who is disabled, he draws the wider parallel of that same search within every man and woman; the fragility and vulnerability of each person at the level of the heart and in the search for relationship. An intimate and searching book, Man and Woman God Made Them contains a wealth of insight into the meaning and sources of human sexuality.

`This is a very remarkable book, full of wisdom, humour and profound insight into the mystery of human sexuality... In reading this book I touched again the great mystery of the divine gift of love, offered to us through a deeply wounded humanity.`

From the Foreword by Henri J. M. Nouwen

Jean Vanier was educated in England and Canada, entered the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England in 1942. He went to sea in 1945 in the Royal Navy and in 1947 transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. He resigned from the Royal Canadian Navy in 1950 while serving H.M.C.S. Magnificent. He then went to France to work in a students` community outside of Paris. He studied philosophy and theology and obtained a Doctorate from the Catholic Institute in Paris.

Contents
Foreword by Henri J. M. Nouwen
Introduction
Questions begin to emerge
The concept of `normalization`
Implications of the `normalization` of sexual relations
Reflecting on our vision at l`Arche
My Christian faith
1 The Wounded Heart
The disillusionment of parents
The suffering of the child
Anguish
Healing the heart: a redeeming love
The role of the intermediary
The experience of God`s love
Loss, grief and the love of God
2 Education and Its Demands
The need for a united environment
The `yes` to growth
Tenderness is not enough
The challenge of education
The courage to forbid
Education of the heart
Love and the person who has a handicap
Developing confidence
True authority
Education for adults
Education for emotional and sexual life
Making the necessary transition to growth
3 The Relationship between Man and Woman
Man and woman in the vision of God
Accepting differences
Mixed homes
Sources of relationship
Emotional maturity and immaturity
Homosexuality, masturbation and anguish
The suffering of prostitution
4 A Place for the Heart
Activities of the heart and activities of work
At home
The challenge of l`Arche
Sexual difficulties when one has no `home`
A sense of belonging
The refusal to belong
The great need of the human heart
The home can stifle
5 The Community: Place of Sexual Integration
Dreams of marriage
Community and culture
Interpreting behaviour
Integration of sexuality
A true community
The ideal community?
6 The Celibate Living in Community
The suffering of the celibate
In the absence of community
The need for models
My own experience of vulnerability
Celibacy and the mystery of love
The mystery of love with Jesus
The assistants and the mystery of love
7 Unity in Marriage
The birth of a true relationship
Who decides what?
The beauty and the seriousness of sexual relationships
In daily life
Difficulties in living covenant relationships in marriage
Marriage
Marriage as a sacrament
Marriage for people with a mental handicap
The child
Who can get married?
8 Fecundity and the Welcome of Death
The cry for fecundity
Fruitfulness and celibacy
The fruitfulness of the community
Spiritual fecundity
Difficulties
The fruitfulness of suffering
The celebration of death
Fecundity and sterilization
9 A Celebration of Unity
The meaning of pleasure
The discovery of true joy
The search for sexual relations in the absence of community and celebration
People with mental handicaps have a capacity for
celebration
Celebration, aggression and forgiveness
The celebration of unity
Happiness
Conclusion