Compassionate Presence: A Radical Response to Human Suffering - Softcover

Nolasco Jr., Rolf R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498202039 ISBN 13: 9781498202039

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2016

Synopsis

Compassion plays a central role in the teachings of all world religions. Christianity in particular demonstrates its vitality through compassionate engagement with those suffering with Christ serving as a paradigm and source of motive power. These concrete acts of mercy and solidarity disclose God's intimate regard for the welfare of humanity. The purpose of this book is to affirm compassion as the pulsating heartbeat of Christian theology and praxis through the hermeneutical perspectives of brain science, psychology, and practical theology. More importantly, it offers readers specific compassion cultivation practices that will nurture the trait of compassion as a way of incarnating God's compassionate presence and response to a world marked with suffering of all kinds.

About this title

About the Authors

Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. is Professor of Counseling Psychology at Providence Theological Seminary, Calgary, Alberta. He is the author The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being (2011).


R. Vincent MacDonald is a registered psychologist in Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498202039
• ISBN 13: 9781498202039
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136