Compassion

A Reflection On The Christian Life

With co-authors Donald P. McNeill and Douglas A. Morrison, Nouwen explores the unique role of compassion in the Christian life. At first sight compassion seems to be a natural, instinctive, human response to others’ pain and suffering. But on closer inspection the authors conclude that for the Christian true compassion is born only out of prayerful reflection on the implications of the Incarnation and the demands it makes on all who would follow in the footsteps of the Man of Sorrows. A creative, insightful exploration of a timely topic in a world sensitized to violation of human rights, hunger, and oppression.

(Doubleday, 1982, Pp. xii + 142; revised edition 2005)

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