Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (Nouen), (1932–1996) was a Dutch-born Catholic priest and writer who authored 40 books on the spiritual life. Nouwen's books are widely read today by Protestants and Catholics alike. The Wounded Healer, In the Name of Jesus, Clowning in Rome, The Life of the Beloved, and The Way of the Heart are just a few of the more widely recognized titles. After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to share his life with mentally handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada. After a long period of declining energy, which he chronicled in his final book, Sabbatical Journey, he died in September 1996 from a sudden heart attack. His spirituality was influenced by many, notably by his friendship with Jean Vanier. At the invitation of Vanier he visited L'Arche in France, the first of over 130 communities around the world where people with developmental disabilities live and share life together with those who care for them. In 1986 Nouwen accepted the position of pastor for a L'Arche community called "Daybreak" in Canada, near Toronto. Nouwen wrote about his relationship with Adam, a core member at L'Arche Daybreak with profound developmental disabilities, in a book titled Adam: God's Beloved. Father Nouwen was a good friend of the late Joseph Cardinal Bernardin. The results of a Christian Century magazine survey conducted in 2003 indicate that Nouwen's work was a first choice of authors for Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy. One of his most famous works is Inner Voice of Love, his diary from December 1987 to June 1988 during one of his most serious bouts with clinical depression. There is a Father Henri J. M. Nouwen Catholic Elementary School in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Series
Books
In the Name of Jesus
Reflections on Christian Leadership
1989
A Spirituality of Homecoming
The Henri Nouwen Spirituality Series
2012
Seeds of Hope
A Henri Nouwen Reader
1989
The Road to Peace
Writings on Peace and Justice
1998
The Genesee Diary
Report from a Trappist Monastery
1976
The Spiritual Life
Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen
2016
Jesus and Mary
1993
Creative Ministry
1971
A Spirituality of Fundraising
2011
You Are the Beloved
365 Daily Readings and Meditations for Spiritual Living: A Devotional
2002
Ministry and Spirituality
1996
Clowning in Rome
Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation
1979
Hope for Caregivers
A 42-Day Devotional in Company with Henri J. M. Nouwen
2022
The Dance of Life
Weaving Sorrows And Blessings into One Joyful Step
2005
Walk With Jesus
Stations of the Cross
1751
Our Greatest Gift
A Meditation on Dying and Caring
1994
Making All Things New
An Invitation to the Spiritual Life
1981
A Sorrow Shared
A Combined Edition of the Nouwen Classics "In Memoriam" and "A Letter of Consolation"
2010
Spiritual Direction
Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
2006
The Selfless Way of Christ
Downward Mobility and the Spiritual Life
1981
Gracias
1983
Turn My Mourning Into Dancing
2001
Lent and Easter Wisdom From Henri J. M. Nouwen
2005
A Spirituality of Caregiving
2011
Spiritual Formation
Following the Movements of the Spirit
2010
Sabbatical Journey
The Diary of His Final Year
1998
A Spirituality of Waiting
1985
Aging
The Fulfillment of Life
1974
A Cry for Mercy
Prayers from the Genesee
1981
Behold the Beauty of the Lord
Praying With Icons
1986
Here and Now
Living in the Spirit
1994
With Burning Hearts
A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life
1994
Henri Nouwen
1988
With Open Hands
1977
Following Jesus
Finding Our Way Home in an Age of Anxiety
2019
The Road to Daybreak
A Spiritual Journey
1988
Love in a Fearful Land
A Guatemalan Story
1985
Henri J. M. Nouwen
2001
The Inner Voice of Love
1996
Who Are We?
Exploring Our Christian Identity
2006
The Path of Power
1995
Discernment
Reading the Signs of Daily Life
2011
Bread for the Journey
A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
1996
Home Tonight
Further Reflections on the Parable of the Prodigal Son
2009
The Path Of Peace
1845
Eternal Seasons
A Spiritual Journey Through the Church's Year
2003
Out of Solitude
Three Meditations on the Christian Life
1973
The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition
A Special Two-in-One Volume, including Home Tonight
2016
Jesus
A Gospel
2001
A Letter of Consolation
1982
Letters to Marc About Jesus
Living a Spiritual Life in a Material World
1988
Beloved
Henri Nouwen in Conversation
2007
The Wounded Healer
Ministry in Contemporary Society
1971
Lifesigns
Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective
1986
Adam
God's Beloved
1997
Ukraine Diary
2023
The Path of Waiting
1997
A Spirituality of Living
2012
Finding My Way Home
Pathways to Life and the Spirit
2001
The Lonely Search for God
1995
Life of the Beloved
Spiritual Living in a Secular World
1992
Advent and Christmas Wisdom from Henri J.M. Nouwen
Daily Scripture and Prayers together with Nouwen's Own Words
2004
Peacework
A Spiritual Perspective
2005
The Way of the Heart
Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Ministry
1981
Life of the Beloved and Our Greatest Gift
2002
Spiritual Journals
The Genesee Diary, Gracias!, the Road to Daybreak
1997
Reaching Out
The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
1975
The Return of the Prodigal Son
A Story of Homecoming
1991
Intimacy
1981
The Essential Henri Nouwen
2009
Restless Soul
Meditations from the Road
2008
Compassion
A Reflection on the Christian Life
1982
The Living Reminder
Service and Prayer in Memory of Jesus Christ
1977
The Path of Freedom
1995
Bread and Wine
Readings for Lent and Easter
2002
The Only Necessary Thing
1999
Encounters with Merton
Spiritual Reflection
2004
Flying, Falling, Catching
An Unlikely Story of Finding Freedom
2022
Heart Speaks to Heart
Three Gospel Meditations on Jesus
1989
Community
2021
Mornings With Henri J. M. Nouwen
Readings and Reflections
1997
Beyond the Mirror
Reflections on Death and Life
1990
Love, Henri
Letters on the Spiritual Life
2016
Show Me the Way
Daily Lenten Readings
1992
Can You Drink the Cup?
1996
Henri Nouwen on Suffering and Joy
2021
