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Is compassion an emotion or a virtue? What characterizes a Christian understanding of compassion? What is its relationship to the Passion of Christ, to mercy and to the love for one's fellow human beings? The authors of this volume examine these issues from the perspective of cultural studies, philosophy and theology. In discussion with the Aristotelian definition of compassion, biblical traditions such as the story of the Good Samaritan and the views of Luther, Nietzsche, Bonhoeffer, Nussbaum, Murdoch, Roberts and Winch, among others, they attempt to delineate the complex landscape of the manifold uses of a controversial concept.

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Ingolf U. Dalferth (Herausgegeben von) Born 1948; 1977 Promotion; 1982 Habilitation; Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Symbolism and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Zurich; Danforth Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in California; Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa. Andreas Hunziker (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1968; Privatdozent für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Zürich und Pfarrer in Suhr, Schweiz. Andrea Anker (Herausgegeben von) ist Assistentin am Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie, Symbolik und Religionsphilosophie der Universität Zürich.

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