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<p>This review critically engages Mary W. McCampbell’s <i>Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves</i>, which argues that artistic engagement cultivates empathy by expanding our imaginative capacity. While affirming McCampbell’s claim that the arts can disrupt self-centeredness and awaken recognition of the <i>imago Dei</i> in others, this study contends that traditional empathy, as framed in her work, remains limited by its unidirectional structure. Drawing from spiritual counseling, practical theology, and intercultural pastoral care, the paper proposes interpathy—a bidirectional, mutually transformative process—as a more robust framework for relational healing and theological reflection. Through arts-based methodologies and theologically grounded analysis, the study demonstrates how imagination and narrative can foster shared vulnerability and reciprocal transformation. In doing so, it expands McCampbell’s framework beyond empathy, offering interpathy as a vital paradigm for spiritual counseling, especially in multicultural and postcolonial contexts.</p>

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Review of Mary McCampbell's Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy

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    2025年5月29日

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  • Wonjong Horace Lee

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This review critically engages Mary W. McCampbell’s Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves, which argues that artistic engagement cultivates empathy by expanding our imaginative capacity. While affirming McCampbell’s claim that the arts can disrupt self-centeredness and awaken recognition of the imago Dei in others, this study contends that traditional empathy, as framed in her work, remains limited by its unidirectional structure. Drawing from spiritual counseling, practical theology, and intercultural pastoral care, the paper proposes interpathy—a bidirectional, mutually transformative process—as a more robust framework for relational healing and theological reflection. Through arts-based methodologies and theologically grounded analysis, the study demonstrates how imagination and narrative can foster shared vulnerability and reciprocal transformation. In doing so, it expands McCampbell’s framework beyond empathy, offering interpathy as a vital paradigm for spiritual counseling, especially in multicultural and postcolonial contexts.