Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity by Susan Wessel

Passion and Compassion in Early Christianity

Susan Wessel

290 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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This book examines how the early Christian elite articulated and cultivated the affective dimensions of compassion in a Roman world that promoted emotional tranquillity as the path to human flourishing. Drawing upon a wide range of early Christian...

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