TY - BOOK AU - Hauerwas,Stanley AU - Vanier,Jean TI - Living gently in a violent world: the prophetic witness of weakness T2 - Resources for reconciliation SN - 9780830834525 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - BT741.3 .H38 2008 U1 - 261.8324 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Downers Grove, Ill. PB - IVP Books KW - Arche (Association) KW - Human body KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Disabilities KW - Church work with people with disabilities N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [107]-110); Living gently in a violent world / John Swinton -- The fragility of l'Arche and the friendship of God / Jean Vanier -- Finding God in strange places : why l'Arche needs the church / Stanley Hauerwas -- The vision of Jesus : living peaceably in a wounded world / Jean Vanier -- The politics of gentleness / Stanley Hauerwas -- Conclusion: L'Arche as a peace movement / John Swinton N2 - Theologian Stanley Hauerwas collaborates with Jean Vanier, founder of the worldwide L'Arche communities. They carefully explore the contours of a countercultural community that embodies a different way of being and witnesses to a new order--one marked by radical forms of gentleness, peacemaking and faithfulness. --from publisher description UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008022662.html ER -