Christian mystics as “great souls”

In his writings, the Australian Baptist theologian G. H. Morling occasionally refers to โ€œgreat souls,โ€ people of extraordinary humanity or spiritual insight โ€“ those rare individuals able to express uncommon empathy or magnanimity, whether in actions or words. The phrase โ€œgreat soulโ€ echoes the classical Greek notion ofย megalopsychos,ย the โ€œgreat-souled man,โ€ย articulated by Aristotle, denoting largeness of …