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by Jean Vanier (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd; 2nd Revised edition edition (18 Sep 1989)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0232518149
  • ISBN-13: 978-0232518146
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Life-Changing Read, 28 Jan 2003
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If you have not read Community and Growth, cancel your next weeekend and get down to it. If living with other people is part of your life - or you want it to be - you have to read this book.

It comes not from a management guru but the founder of L'Arche, a style of living that brings together people of all abilities and disabilities in communities all over the world. Coming from a philosophical and military French-Canadian background, Jean Vanier began his new way not with a book or a focus group but the experience of living with two adult men with learning disabilities in the French countryside. From them and from his Christian prayer life he fostered a new outlook. In L'Arche communities there was to be equality of esteeem and a common awareness of our shared broken humanity. Each person was to help in the 'repair' of each other.

Community and Growth is not just about L'Arche communities. It is about the mystery of being yourself with people you love and hate, knowing yourself as a person you both love and hate. There is no starry romanticism about the community life.

Read it slowly. If you want to complete it in that weekend you might have to cancel your sleep. It's not a long book but it's a meditation, a conversation which waits page by page for your response.

If you never live with a community or with another person even after you've read it, you will will live better with yourself.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A manifesto for life today - part psychology, part prophecy, 9 Jul 2004
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Despite its dry title, this is one of the most illuminating books I've ever read. Quite simply, it changed my outlook completely in a number of ways with its combination of compassionate psychological insight and its prophetic vision for the renewal of the church through the pain of the marginalised.
Considering the vast amount of mumbo-jumbo pedalled in certain "self-help" books I could mention, I've never come across anybody who writes about human nature - the different stages of a person's life, our weakness and tendency to fail, our own intrinsic "deep wounds" which need to be healed, and the need to set our lives together as human beings on the twin foundations of forgiveness and celebration - with such clarity. Jean Vanier's recognition of the hurt in human society and his vision that that hurt can only be healed through listening, ministering to and respecting the most vulnerable, the most marginalised, those on the fringes of our communities, is nothing short of prophetic. He builds this vision, of course, on his own very deep faith as a Roman Catholic Christian - but please don't let that deter you from reading this book if you happen not to share his particular flavour of faith. This is a man with something to teach the world. Respect!
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