Capítulo 1: La compasión desde sus fundamentos bíblico-teológicos
Fecha
2019Registro en:
Mejía , I. (2019). La compasión en la antropología teológica. Una lectura desde la obra de Jesús Espeja Pardo. Bogotá: Universidad Santo Tomás.
Autor
Mejía Correa, Iván Fernando.
Institución
Resumen
One of the constants of the God of Jesus Christ is that He is a merciful, tender, compassionate1 God.
merciful, tender, compassionate1 .
. For many scholars, these attitudes are God's constants and cannot be separated.
are the constants of God and cannot be separated. When we speak of mercy, we are alluding at the same time to compassion. So much so that in some translations
translations we find that it is sometimes translated as compassion or mercy2.
or mercy2
. For this reason, an author such as José Manuel Andueza states: "From the outset we find that in the Old Testament the word "compassion" is translated as "compassion".
In the Old Testament we find that in the Old Testament there are different words, since, as Dueruer indicates, it is
words, since, as Duerrwell points out, to celebrate this merciful love, the Hebrew Bible
the Hebrew Bible had a range of terms to celebrate this merciful affection, each one of which
of which in turn contains multiple harmonics "3.
. We can say, with
Xabier Pikaza and José Antonio Pagola, that mercy has names or characteristic notes.
characteristic notes.