دانلود کتاب Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity

Th is book examines how the early Christian elite articulated and
cultivated the aff ective dimensions of compassion in a Roman world
that promoted emotional tranquillity as the path to human fl ourishing.
Drawing upon a wide range of early Christians from both
east and west, Wessel situates each author in the broader cultural and
intellectual context. Th e reader is introduced to the diverse conditions
in which Christians felt and were urged to feel compassion in
exemplary ways, and in which warnings were sounded against the
possibilities for distortion and exploitation. Wessel argues that the
early Christians developed literary methods and rhetorical techniques
to bring about appropriate emotional responses to human suff ering.
Th eir success in this regard marks the beginning of aff ective compassion
as a Christian virtue. Comparison with early modern and
contemporary philosophers and ethicists further demonstrates the
intrinsic worth of the early Christian understanding of compassion.