Passionate concern (ICA)

This is the awareness of a great human need that affects the quality of people's lives, which may be only at the edge of what the mainstream of society says people need. It occurs when a person awakens to some dimension of innocent human suffering that is not necessary and could be eliminated; for example, the people who led the anti-slavery movement in the early years of the 19th century when there was little social awareness of the inhumanity of slavery in western society.

In the ICA New Religious Mode in the arena of acting out one's engagement (the life of obedience) the third formal aspect is embodying charity as the transestablishment to act out social concern. At the first phenomenological level, this occurs when one becomes aware that one is not autonomous, but rather is bound unto death to other people.