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In Mercy, the important new book praised by Pope Francis, Cardinal Walter Kasper examines God’s mercy while holding these devastating facts and questions in hand. He looks at empathy and compassion as a starting point for theological reflection on the topic. He continues by reflecting upon the following: What does it mean to believe in a merciful God? How are divine mercy and divine justice...

to the gradual process by which the Old Testament’s idea of God is critically transformed, nor does it do justice to the internal development of the Old Testament in the direction of the New Testament. Ultimately, both Testaments give witness to the same God. This fact emerges already from some initial observations and reflections about language use in the Old as well as in the New Testament. It is characteristic of the Old Testament that it uses the expression rachamim for “compassion” and, for
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