Preface

Preface

My purpose in this book is to give testimony to a journey of faith inspired by caring for a profoundly disabled son for 45 years, while also being theologian, university teacher and Methodist minister. It takes up, yet significantly modifies, the earlier account written when Arthur was 17 and published as Face to Face (1985) – indeed, most of the first two chapters is drawn from that earlier version, whose climax was my call to ordination after years of struggle with doubt. This version has a different perspective, focusing on Arthur’s vocation and articulating the way in which this life-dominating experience has given me privileged access to the deepest truths of Christianity. Inevitably it draws on a lifetime of reflection…