The next step from that article is coming out in Aug, called "Empathy and Its Counterfeits: Navigating 'The Sin of Empathy' and a Way Forward," also published by Themelios. I hope and pray you will find it helpful too.
Agree with your analysis. To be able to be empathetic is a virtue like any other. But to distort that natural virtue into something else perhaps even risks straying into idolatry.
The next step from that article is coming out in Aug, called "Empathy and Its Counterfeits: Navigating 'The Sin of Empathy' and a Way Forward," also published by Themelios. I hope and pray you will find it helpful too.
Agree with your analysis. To be able to be empathetic is a virtue like any other. But to distort that natural virtue into something else perhaps even risks straying into idolatry.