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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 16285 Users | 985 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
ISBN:	023252078X (ISBN13: 9780232520781)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Prodigal Son, Elder Brother, Father

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A chance encounter with a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, catapulted Henri Nouwen into a long spiritual adventure. In his highly-acclaimed book of the same title, he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within which God has chosen to dwell. This Lent course, which has been adapted from the book, helps us to reflect on the meaning of the parable for our own lives. Divided into five sessions, the course moves through the parable exploring our reaction to the story: the younger son's leaving and return, the father's restoration of sonship, the elder son's resentment and the father's compassion. All of us who have experienced loneliness, dejection, jealousy or anger will respond to the persistent themes of homecoming, affirmation and reconciliation.

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Title	:	The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
Author	:	Henri J.M. Nouwen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	May 1st 1994 by Darton, Longman and Todd (first published 1991)
Categories	:	Christian. Spirituality. Religion. Theology. Nonfiction. Christianity

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Ratings: 4.37 From 16285 Users | 985 Reviews

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This book has some crazily accurate descriptions of what a perverse need for human affirmation feels like, and how reception of God's love is the answer. The call to move from a son who receives love to a father who gives is also really striking. It was really interesting, and helpful, to see a treatment of the story that cast the younger son's severance from the father in terms of looking for affirmation wrongly and so-called 'cold' or 'spiritual' vices instead of lust.

The heart of the Bible is the parable of the Prodigal Son and Henri Nouwen's book on this parable is by far one of the best. I can read it over and over again and feel like I am reading it for the first time in my life. If you want to know what type of God we have in Christianity, then begin with this book and you will be proud that you are a Christian!

On a handful of occasions, a work of art has riveted my attention. As a college student, a painting in the Butler Museum of Art titled "In Flanders Fields Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow" by Robert Vonnoh had that effect as I pondered young girls picking scarlet red poppies in what had once been a killing field. For Nouwen, it was a portion of Rembrandt's painting of the Return of the Prodigal Son that had this same effect. Eventually he spent several days meditating upon the original and

A lot to chew on with this elegant and short reflection on both Jesus' parable and Rembrandt's painting of the return of the prodigal son. I especially enjoyed Nouwen's confessional writing style, which allows him to preach without being preachy and convict the reader without claiming to do so. The best part is Nouwen's discussion of the elder son, often neglected in treatments of the parable but whose own journey is perhaps most relevant to many Christians, including myself.

This was a really great Lenten read. There were many sections I highlighted and will need to revisit in the future. This excerpt from the epilogue sums up pretty well the challenge for spiritual growth this book provides:"Rembrandt portrays the father as the man who has transcended the ways of his children. His own loneliness and anger may have been there, but they have been transformed by suffering and tears. His loneliness has become endless solitude, his anger boundless gratitude. This is who

Beautiful reflection on Rembrandts painting of and the Gospel of Lukes parable of the Prodigal Son. Nouwen explores how we can be the younger son, elder son, and even the father in this timeless story of lost and found.

This book changed me, plain and simple. From the way I view art, to the way I view myself, my relationships, and how I am to live my vocation. This is one I am going to have to plan to re-read regularly. So good.