File 2094 - Reading notes and articles from Mount Savior Retreat

1.5 cm of textual records

File consists of a bound volume of handwritten and typed reading notes by Nouwen.
The reading notes are dated and record Nouwen's reading regime for the summer. Some of the reading notes are in Dutch. Many of the reading notes are recorded on Mount Savior letterhead. Nouwen included notes on works by Mark Schoof, Jan de Harlog, Sydney Ahlstrom, Andre Louf, Thomas Merton, David Stanley, S.E. Morison, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Carlos Castaneda, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Jan de Hartog, Black Elk, Johannes B. Metz, Raimundo Pannikar, Harvey Cox, Andre Schwartz-Bart, Simon Wiesenthal, Adele M. Fiske, Simone Weil, John Howard Yoder, Abraham Joshua Heschel, J.R. M. Maas, Anselm Schulz, Robert Rosenthal, and Paul Pruyser Also included are notes Nouwen took during a conversation with John Baptist Robinson as well as two articles, one by Thomas Merton titled "Final Integration: toward a 'Monastic Therapy', the other a magazine and newsprint article by Sara Davidson titled "Baba Ram Dass: The Metamorphic Journey of Richard Alpert."

• Dutch
• English

Title based on contents of the file.
File contains materials in Dutch.

Nouwen made these reading notes during a summer-long retreat at the Mount Savior Monastery, a Benedictine community located in Pine City near Elmira, NY. This community is also home to Br. David Steindl-Rast , an author that is frequently cited by Nouwen in his courses at Yale Divinity School. Nouwen used many of the authors he read during this retreat in his courses Discipline and Discipleship, Thomas Merton, and Christian Spirituality.

Revised by L Joson, 13 November 2018