“Divine Pathos” Sermon

Sermon delivered by Rev. Dr. Colin Bossen delivered as part of a series on “The Lives of the Spirit.” The civil rights activist and Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel understood God as pathos. He explores Heschel’s belief that religious piety and social justice activism, which he named the prophetic, were inextricably linked. 

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