Barbara Fiand’s Embraced by Compassion: On Human Longing and Divine Response is a book that goes to the very heart of the human / divine connection, the place where God and the human person meet. Employing a “theology by immersion,” Fiand shows how our search for ourselves can and should lead us to God, and how our search for God will be rooted in our own personal experience. She reveals the ways in which faith development and human development can and do mutually enrich on another. Embraced by Compassion is a book for personal enrichment and private reading as well as for courses on spirituality and psychology.