Initial Project Bibliography

Compassion Bibliography

Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions 

Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

H. H. The Dalia Lama, An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life

Matthew Fox, Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice 

Matthew Fox, Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation

Thich Nhat Hahn, Teachings on Love

Lorne Ladner, The Lost Art of Compassion: Discovering the Practice of Happiness in the Meeting of Buddhism and Psychology 

Henri Nouwen, Donald P. McNeill, and Douglas A Morrison.  Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life 

Raimon Panikkar, Intra-Religious Dialog

Howard Thurman, The Search For Common Ground

Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited 

Robert Wuthnow, Acts of Compassion

Scope of the Project

Compassion is a key value in many of the world’s religions.  Since the importance of compassion is shared by many religious groups, it is a point for interreligious dialog as well as a springboard for common social justice activities.  In this dissertation I will look at compassion generally and then compare the expression of compassion in Christianity and Buddhism. In addition, I will discuss the role that compassion plays in inter-religious dialog and some of the practical consequences of this key shared value in interfaith social justice projects.

Introduction

Armstrong, 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life

Armstrong, Great Transformation

Definition of Compassion—the many meanings of compassion

Armstrong, 12 Steps to a Compassionate Life

Armstrong, Great Transformation

               Fox, Spirituality Named Compassion

Centrality of Compassion to the Major World Religions

Armstrong, Great Transformation

Fox, Spirituality Named Compassion

Compassion in Buddhism

Thich Nhat Hahn, Teachings on Love

Dalai Lama,   An Open Heart

Lorne Ladner, The Lost Art of Compassion

Compassion in Christianity

Nouwen, Compassion: Reflection on the Christian Life

Matthew Fox, Breakthrough: Meister Eckhart’s Creation Spirituality

Thurman, Howard. Jesus and the Disinherited

Compassion as Opening to Interfaith Dialog

            Raimon Panikkar, Intra-Religious Dialog

            Thurman, Search for Common Ground\

            Wuthrow, Acts of Compassion

Compassion and Inter-Faith Social Justice Activity

Wuthrow, Acts of Compassion

          

Conclusion

Project on Compassion

This is the first post on my new project on Compassion in Buddhism and Christianity; the way that Buddhist and Christian individuals and groups manifest compassion in their everyday lives and work; the way that scientific studies of Compassion, like the studies that proceeded these on Mindfulness, aid in accepting compassion; the develop of programs in the US to cultivate compassion similar to MBSR programs; and the way that twenty-first century compassion is being embedded in American culture.