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Ausgabe:

April/2021

Spalte:

357-359

Kategorie:

Praktische Theologie

Autor/Hrsg.:

Ozioko, Edwin Ikechukwu

Titel/Untertitel:

Compassion – A Pastoral Paradigm for Integral Salvation and the Growth of the Church.

Verlag:

Münster u. a.: LIT Verlag 2019. 312 S. = Theologie und Praxis, 39. Kart. EUR 39,90. ISBN 9783643911018.

Rezensent:

Oliver Davies

The author of this stimulating book, Edwin Ikechukwu Ozioko, is right to underline the fact that the potential meanings of the term ›compassion‹ are generally significantly undervalued in the documents of the contemporary Catholic Church. In Church statements there is a preference for the language of ›solidarity, justice, peace and love‹. These may imply the concrete actuality of compassion as a decisive ›option for the other‹ in the face of the other’s need, and as the natural culmination of the formation of conscience and personal development which promote solidarity, but they do not name it as such. O. also points to the centrality of ›compassion‹ in the Church’s own conception of ›charity‹, and particularly the role of charity in the pastoral life of ...


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