num_pages: 144
description: This book is about the theology of Jean Vanier. Drawing from Vanier's writings it situates Vanier's theological thinking on community care and what it means to be and become human in the context of welcome. This book draws attention to how welcome for Vanier is a visible expression of genuine hospitality friendship and human growth offering an alternative way of conceiving and naming the social forming dynamics within Christian community with special attention given to how welcome occurs within the communities of L'Arche. At a deeper level this book assesses Vanier's thinking on the place and role both the self and community play in welcoming the truth of reality as it is revealed and given within community in order to prepare the way for exploring how welcome is a sign of community life the visible expression of individual and communal trust in God's providence and a conduit of God's presence in the world.
language: English
title: Welcome as a Way of Life: A Practical Theology of Jean Vanier
publisher: Cascade Books