| View Larger Image | Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life | Paperbackby Henri J.M. Nouwen (Author), Donald McNeill (Author), Douglas Morrison (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd | | Page Count: | 160 Pages | | Publication Date: | June 23, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 73,533rd |
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Compassion, no longer merely an eraser of human mistakes, is a force of prayer and action, say the authors--the expression of God's love for us and our love for Him and one another. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 15 reviews)
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Great Book, Quick Delivery by K. Ferguson  4 Stars
September 11, 2009
This is an amazing read. It is a challenge and, though a few years old, totally relevant.
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Great Read! by Julian P. Weber  5 Stars
April 05, 2009
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human (4). The great news we have received is that God is a compassionate God. In Jesus Christ the obedient servant, who did not cling to his divinity but emptied himself and became as we are, God has revealed the fullness of his compassion. He is Immanuel, God-with-us. The great call we have heard is to live a compassionate life. In the community formed in displacement and leading to a new way of being together, we can become disciples - living manifestations of God's presence in this world. The great task we have been given is to walk the compassionate way. Through the discipline of patience, practiced in prayer and action, the life of discipleship becomes real and fruitful (133).
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Insightful and Concise! by Joseph Caldwell (Virginia Beach) 5 Stars
August 25, 2008
I'm having difficulty trying to type what I would like for someone to know about this book. I read the reviews of books before I purchase them too and know they have some influence. What if I just say that your dollar and time investment are low and your yield is gigantic? Reading this has brought me to a deeper understanding of God's nature and has brought me back to the Bible as a source of this understanding.
Please read this book.
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Spirituality Articulated by Work4Justice (Richmond, VA) 5 Stars
February 11, 2008
This book puts the spiritual life into words in a profound way. The authors weave the different components of spirituality together from compassion, patience, prayer,and action to confrontation. I found it both affirming and challenging. This is a great book for those involved with spiritual direction.
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Some Pretty Nice Material. by Bradley Headstone (New York)  3 Stars
October 12, 2006
Well, I can't quite place this book on the same level as Father Brown's "A Crucified Christ In Holy Week," Bishop Richard Holloway's "The Killing," or Bishop John Spong's "Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism." Nevertheless, it is still a nice book with some worthwhile matierial. One time the priest who sponsored me at my confirmation (Father Wood) gave a sermon where he said that being a Christian means more than believing Christ is the son of God. He explained that even the devil will say that Jesus is the son of God. To some extent, this book seems to follow what Father Wood said. One of the things this book points out is that sympathy and compassion are NOT the same thing. For compassion to be real, it requires empathy. (Meeting the person on his or her level.) One crucial thing this book points out is that it is tempting to think of Jesus as someone who just performed great and wonderous deeds. (Such as healing lepers, the blind, and a paralyzed man.) But this book points out that it was more than that. Jesus actually brought himself to their level through compassion and empathy and healed them. One harsh reality the 3 authors of this book point out is that true compassion and empathy are often at odds with our competitive drives. In fact, this is proven by an enemy of Chrisitians. He is quoted as saying that his problem with Christianity is that it is "...sided with all that is weak and base, with all failures; it has made an ideal of whatever contradicts the instincts of strong life to preserve itself...at the bottom of Christianity is the rancour of the sick instinct directed against the healthy and health itself." Reality check; doesn't that sound like something Al Pacino (as the devil) would have said in "The Devil's Advocate?" Another really valid point made in this book is that our careers often diminish our Christian values. This point was made quite well in Al Pacino's "The Devil's Advocate" and Jen Garner's "13 Going On 30." Some other interesting points that these authors make are that impatience often causes us to waste time, that rigid patterns we fall into often kill us spiritually, and that in our hopes for the future we forget the present. This book is crowned with something that applies to us all. Often, we become selective in what we will do and what we don't do because we want to be liked. All in all, this is a nice book that has some worthwhile moments.
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