ascesis, 264, 272

assistants

role of, 4, 91, 100, 102–109

transformation of, 5, 29, 116, 123–152, 154n1, 171, 173–209, 219–236, 240–279

atonement, 76, 218, 262–263, 276n40

attachment, 25, 40–41, 98, 164, 195–197

Augustine, 17, 242, 254

autonomy, 43, 49–51, 57, 75, 84n16, 124, 160, 227, 248–251, 255, 264, 266–267

awakening, interior, 125–152, 219–237, 240, 252, 259, 265–271, 181, 283

awareness

of Christ, 221, 230–231, 235n15

in life of L’Arche, 4, 106, 124, 131, 144, 148, 150–152, 179, 186, 189, 196, 202, 210–211, 224

and salvation, 213, 217, 221, 252, 266

and shame, 40, 114, 132, 159, 167, 174, 183, 220, 225–227

in transformation, 22, 24, 42, 54, 73, 89

baptism, 221–223, 264–265

Barth, K., 54

Beatitudes, 4, 6, 19, 96–97, 114, 117–118, 272

beauty, 125, 150–151, 210, 214, 219, 228, 250, 268, 270

Becker, E., 212–213, 215, 262

Belenky, M., 77, 89n16

belonging, 25, 140, 245–246

“belovedness,” experience of, 143–144, 149, 221, 223, 231–232, 270

Berger, P., 80–82, 89

Boethius, 249

Bradshaw, J., 161, 178, 181, 183, 207n60, 207n71

brokenness, condition of. See also woundedness

and Christ, 144, 228, 231, 261

power of, 4, 142, 146, 149, 179, 225, 231–232, 263

and shame, 114, 190, 196

and transformation, 124, 127, 133, 135, 142, 148–149, 182, 196, 200–201, 223, 256, 275n28

Buber, M., 271

Cappadocians, 242, 247–249

care

in human development, 49–50, 63, 73, 159, 166–167, 205n33, 205n39, 245

in L’Arche, 2, 5, 7, 22, 81, 93, 99, 101, 107, 114, 125, 128–129, 137, 171, 184, 207n64

in pastoral ministry, 2, 13, 16, 184

and shame, 166–167, 170–171, 176, 184, 186, 192, 195

theological dimensions of, 142, 145, 210, 251, 254, 256, 261

as transformative, 11, 22, 41, 132, 134–136, 145, 149–150, 158, 176, 186–188, 192, 195–196, 199–200, 282