In this provocative essay on that least understood virtue,
compassion, the authors challenge themselves and us with these
questions: Where do we place compassion in our lives? Is it enough
to live a life in which we hurt one another as little as possible?
Is our guiding ideal a life of maximum pleasure and minimum pain?
"Compassion" answers no.
After years of study and discussion among themselves, with other
religious, and with men and women at the very center of national
politics, the authors look at compassion with a vigorous new
perspective. They place compassion at the heart of a Christian life
in a world governed far too long by principles of power and
destructive control. Compassion, no longer merely an eraser of
human mistakes, is a force of prayer and action -- the expression
of God's love for us and our love for God and one another.
"Compassion" is a book that says no to a compassion of guilt and
failure and yes to a compassionate love that pervades our spirit
and moves us to action. Henri Nouwen, Donald McNeill, and Douglas
Morrison have written a moving document on what it means to be a
Christian in a difficult time.
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