The Life Journey of a Joyful Man of God

To have known Adrian van Kaam in person is to have loved him for reasons human and spiritual. His kindness to everyone is as legendary as his fidelity to the mystery in all the peaks and valleys of daily life. His humility is the fire that enkindles his original vision of formative spirituality. His gentle, joyful spirit radiates on every page of this retelling of his life story. In it he takes us to the heart of his thinking in the fields of psychology and spiritual formation. He welcomes us wholeheartedly into the intimate corners of his family, his friendships, and his pastoral and professional life. He brings us into a little known arena of world history, the infamous Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944--1945. We travel with him from that bleak period through the renewal of his life's work in the United States to its crowning phase in the Epiphany Association, co-founded with his colleague and editor of this unforgettable work of love, Dr. Susan Muto.

About the author

Father Adrian van Kaam, C.S.Sp., Ph.D., (1920-2007) is the distinguished originator of formation science and its underlying formation anthropology. These new disciplines were designed by him to serve his systematic and systemic formation theology. Taken as a whole, all three fields comprise the art and discipline he named formative spirituality.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian L. van Kaam, Adrian L. Van Kaam
• Assisted by: Susan Muto (Editor)
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2010
• EAN: 9781498256360
• ISBN: 978-1-4982-5636-0
• No. of pages: 454
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 803 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works