In this provocative essay on that least ubderstood virtue, compassion, the authors challenge themselves and us with three questions: Where do we place compassion in our live? Is it enough to live a life in which we hurt one another as little as possible? Is our guiding ideal of life of maximum pleasure and minimum pain? Compassion answers no.
After years of study and discussion among themselves, and with men and women at the very centre of national politics, the authors look at compassion from a vigorous new perspective. They place compassion at the heart of a Christian life in a world governed for too long by principles of power and destructive control. Compassion, no longer 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.
Comapssion 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 McNeil. And Douglas Morrison have written a moving document on what it means to be a Christian in a difficult time.