The Limits Of Forgiveness

Author : Maria Mayo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666703559

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The Limits of Forgiveness by Maria Mayo Pdf

Demystifying an unrealistic ideal Maria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary life: so-called Victim-Offender Mediation involving cases of criminal injury, the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa, and the pastoral care of victims of domestic violence. She shows that an emphasis on unilateral and unconditional forgiveness puts disproportionate pressure on the victims of injustice or violence and misconstrues the very biblical passages—especially in Jesus’ teaching and actions—on which advocates of unconditional forgiveness rely.

Author : Simon Wiesenthal
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307560421

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The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal Pdf

A Holocaust survivor's surprising and thought-provoking study of forgiveness, justice, compassion, and human responsibility, featuring contributions from the Dalai Lama, Harry Wu, Cynthia Ozick, Primo Levi, and more. You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do? While imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew. Faced with the choice between compassion and justice, silence and truth, Wiesenthal said nothing. But even years after the way had ended, he wondered: Had he done the right thing? What would you have done in his place? In this important book, fifty-three distinguished men and women respond to Wiesenthal's questions. They are theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and victims of attempted genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia, China and Tibet. Their responses, as varied as their experiences of the world, remind us that Wiesenthal's questions are not limited to events of the past.

Author : Shauna L. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781489964373

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Making Peace With Your Adult Children by Shauna L. Smith Pdf

Author : Desmond Tutu,Mpho Tutu
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780062203588

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The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu,Mpho Tutu Pdf

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.

Author : Mark R. Amstutz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742535819

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The Healing of Nations by Mark R. Amstutz Pdf

How does one forgive an international political transgression as deep as genocide or apartheid? Forgiveness is often conceived of as an element of personal morality, and even at that it is difficult. This book argues that it is also an essential part of political ethics, especially when dealing with collective wrongdoing by political regimes. In the past, a retributive justice demanding prosecution and punishment of all past offenses has kept the international community away from moving on to the next step in regime change. Here, Mark R. Amstutz takes a restorative justice approach, calling for nations to account for crimes through truth commissions, public apology and repentance, reparations, and ultimately forgiveness and the lifting of deserved penalties. The distinctive feature of forgiveness is the balance it strikes between backward-looking accountability and forward-looking reconciliation. The Healing of Nations combines a theory of the role of forgiveness in public life with four key case studies that test this ethic: Argentina, Chile, Northern Ireland, and South Africa. Amstutz uses the hard cases to illustrate the promise and limits of forgiving without forgetting.

Author : Antjie Krog
Publisher : Random House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781407063515

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Country Of My Skull by Antjie Krog Pdf

The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It was to seek the truth and make it known to the public and to prevent these brutal events ever happening again. From 1996 and over the following two years South Africans were exposed almost daily to revelations about their traumatic past. Antije Krog's full account of the Commission's work using the testimonies of the oppressed and oppressors alike is a harrowing and haunting book in which the voices of ordinary people shape the course of history. WINNER OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD

Author : Kathryn J. Norlock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601391

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The Moral Psychology of Forgiveness by Kathryn J. Norlock Pdf

The feeling that one can’t get over a moral wrong is challenging even in the best of circumstances. This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances. It explores forgiveness in criminal justice contexts, under oppression, after genocide, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, when many different negative reactions abound, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important. The book gathers together a diverse assembly of authors with publication and expertise in forgiveness, while centering the work of new voices in the field and pursuing new lines of inquiry grounded in empirical literature. Some scholars consider how forgiveness influences and is influenced by our other mental states and emotions, while other authors explore the moral value of the emotions attendant upon forgiveness in particularly challenging contexts. Some authors critically assess and advance applications of the standard view of forgiveness predominant in Anglophone philosophy of forgiveness as the overcoming of resentment, while others offer rejections of basic aspects of the standard view, such as what sorts of feelings are compatible with forgiving. The book offers new directions for inquiry into forgiveness, and shows that the moral psychology of forgiveness continues to enjoy challenges to its theoretical structure and its practical possibilities.

Author : Matthew West
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400323029

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Forgiveness by Matthew West Pdf

Whether giving or receiving, forgiveness is the key toward true healing and blessing. God says there are no limits to forgiveness toward others or ourselves. And when Matthew West set out on a journey asking people to share their true life stories, Renée shared about how she chose to forgive the drunk driver who hit and killed her daughter. This remarkable story and others like it bring peace and healing to the one needing and the ones giving forgiveness. Fifty powerful stories share forgiveness through divorce, betrayal, addiction, abandonment, death, and more. Each story ties into the promises of God’s faithfulness and healing, and ends with the story of God’s ultimate forgiveness through the message of salvation.

Author : Alina Tugend
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101486436

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Better By Mistake by Alina Tugend Pdf

New York Times columnist Alina Tugend delivers an eye-opening big idea: Embracing mistakes can make us smarter, healthier, and happier in every facet of our lives. In this persuasive book, journalist Alina Tugend examines the delicate tension between what we’re told—we must make mistakes in order to learn—and the reality—we often get punished for them. She shows us that mistakes are everywhere, and when we acknowledge and identify them correctly, we can improve not only ourselves, but our families, our work, and the world around us as well. Bold and dynamic, insightful and provocative, Better by Mistake turns our cultural wisdom on its head to illustrate the downside of striving for perfection and the rewards of acknowledging and accepting mistakes and embracing the imperfection in all of us.

Author : Charles Griswold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521703512

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Forgiveness by Charles Griswold Pdf

The first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts.

Author : Kathryn Norlock
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739108573

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Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective by Kathryn Norlock Pdf

This philosophical monograph on forgiveness is the first of its kind to be written from a feminist perspective. Kathryn J. Norlock urges scholars to attend to gender when analyzing and recommending forgiveness in practice. She demonstrates that while many academics find the concept of forgiveness both complex and fascinating, they seldom pay attention to the fact that issue of forgiveness intersect with those of gender in many crucial ways. By redefining forgiveness and what constitutes as an act of forgiveness, Norlock encourages readers to consider new questions about the advisability of trying to have a single, universal set of conditions for forgiveness because of the multidimensional nature of its practice and application.

Author : Denis Lacorne
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231547048

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The Limits of Tolerance by Denis Lacorne Pdf

The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics. In this book, Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions: Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? While acknowledging that tolerance can never be entirely without limits, Lacorne defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. Awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie Française, The Limits of Tolerance is a powerful reflection on twenty-first-century democracy’s most fundamental challenges.

Author : T.D. Jakes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781416547334

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Let It Go by T.D. Jakes Pdf

Shares uplifting advice about the virtues of forgiveness, offering strategic and biblically based advice on how to achieve peace and personal fulfillment by letting go of past wrongs.

Author : Stephen D. Bryant,Janice T. Grana,Marjorie J. Thompson
Publisher : Companions in Christ
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0835898407

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Companions in Christ by Stephen D. Bryant,Janice T. Grana,Marjorie J. Thompson Pdf

Companions in Christ is designed to develop you as a leader in guiding the spiritual life of your congregation. This resource gives you an overview of the Christian spiritual life and the practices that help people enter into the formative pattern of Christ's life: a life of prayer, study and service. Help your small-group members move from information (knowledge about) to experience (knowledge of) in the means of grace--ways in which Christ meets people, renews their faith, and deepens their life together in love. This revised Leader's Guide provides detailed guidance for leading a small group through the 28 weekly sessions. The plans have been tested and refined by groups in churches across the country. This books contains all you need, including --the Getting Started Guide, which was formerly a separate piece --a revised plan for a Closing Retreat --Weekly Needs at a Glance --page references for both the comprehensive 1-volume Participant's Book and the new 5-volume series

Author : Joretta L. Marshall
Publisher : Faithquestions
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0687054613

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How Can I Forgive? by Joretta L. Marshall Pdf

What do the Bible and the Christian faith teach about forgiveness? What is God's role in the process of forgiveness? Does the process of forgiveness require us to excuse actions such as battering or sexual abuse? How can I forgive someone who has betrayed me? How Can I Forgive? will explore questions like these and others. The study will develop a way of talking about forgiveness that makes sense in the contemporary world and explore practical advice for receiving and offering forgiveness through the grace offered by God in Christ. It is designed to meet the needs of those who want to live true to the prayer "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us" but who may be skeptical of the ways in which the concept of forgiveness is misunderstood and misused to increase guilt, control, and social inequality.