Part IV: The Compassionate Samaritan: An Apostle of Sensitiveness
Chapter 7: Trauma on the Road to Jericho
Reading the Parable: General Context in Luke
The Good Samaritan Parable: The Trauma and Lack of Response (10:30–32)
Reading the Parable
Insights from Howard Thurman’s Interpretations
- Identifying with the Wounded Man
- The Love Commands
- Modernizing, Humanizing, and Applying the Parable
Chapter 8: Compassion, Mercy, and Hospitality: The Samaritan attending to the wounded man (Luke 10:33–34a)
Reading the Parable
Insights from Howard Thurman’s Interpretations
- The Love-Ethic of Jesus
- Compassion: Its Source and Implications for Human Society
- Compassion: Relating One-on-One as Children of God
Chapter 9: Compassion, Mercy, and Extended Hospitality: The Samaritan bringing the Wounded Man to the Inn (Luke 10:34b–37)
Reading the Parable
Insights from Howard Thurman’s Interpretations
- Hospitality
- The Ultimate Source of Empathy is God
- Creating Community One-on-One
- Becoming “Apostles of Sensitiveness” (or “Eccentric Apostles”)
- Establishing Community through Practice
- Affirmation Mysticism and Social Change
- Love, Empathy, and Community
Conclusion: The Good Samaritan as Parable
With Whom do We Identify?
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