The Rise of Sympathy and the Question of Divine Suffering

Seventeenth-century Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth, writing just at the time when the concept of sympathy was moving from the realm of magic to that of ethics, argued that God must be understood as having a vital sympathy with suffering human beings. Yet while Cudworth invoked sympathy in an att...

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Main Author: Herdt, Jennifer A. 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2001
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2001, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-399
Further subjects:B divine passibility
B Cudworth
B Transcendence
B Sympathy
B Cambridge Platonists
B Sentimentalism
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