RT Article
T1 Empathy: A Bridge between
JF The Journal of pastoral care
VO 46
IS 2
SP 119
OP 128
A1 McCarthy, Marie
LA English
YR 1992
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1814506020
AB Suggests that the capacity for a broad, rich, and encompassing empathy is an essential ingredient of an authentic intercultural experience and understanding for an effective ministry in a world church. Notes that empathy is a process as well as a disposition. Proposes that shared stories greatly enhance the possibility of empathy as do the realities of physical and psychic presence. Suggests that the theological notion of the Incarnation is a powerful metaphor for both the possibilities and the limits of empathy.
DO 10.1177/002234099204600204