Compassion: Loving Our Neighbor in an Age of Globalization

by Maureen H. O'connell

Suffering in the world today, which dehumanizes people, demands that Christians turn to compassion, that they learn to "suffer with another," as the mark of their discipleship. O'Connell asks, "Who more than we, Christian citizens of the world's wealthiest nation, possess the moral imperative, the material and human resources, and the luxury of freedom from want necessary to alleviate the kind of suffering that happens at the hands of others?"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157075845X
• ISBN13: 9781570758454
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"