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Forgiveness
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ISBN: 131748830X 1315710226 1280119977 9786613523914 1844654680 9781844654680 9781317488309 9781280119972 1844652262 9781844652266 1844652262 9781844652266 9781315710228 9781317488286 9781317488293 9781138149984 1317488296 Year: 2010 Publisher: Durham : Acumen,

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Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone, and is always the right thing to do. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really amounts to. They argue that it is more difficult, complex and troubling than many of its advocates suppose. Nevertheless, they conclude, a proper understanding of forgiveness allows us to avoid cheap and shallow forms of it, and enables us to see why it is right and admirable to forgive even unrepentant wrongdoers.


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Forgiveness and Reconciliation
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ISBN: 9781441901811 9781441901828 9781441901804 9781441962195 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York, NY Springer New York

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Anger, hatred, resentment, grudges when the products of conflict smolder for years, decades, or centuries, the idea of peace may seem elusive and unrealistic. At the same time, people and societies need to move beyond these negative traumatic effects so they can heal. Forgiveness and Reconciliation explores in depth two different yet essential components of this peace-building process. Unlike most books on the subject, which tend to focus on the individual's development of forgiveness from a single perspective, Forgiveness and Reconciliation reaches across the spectrum of approaches socio-psychological, biopsychological, therapeutic, developmental, and spiritual among them to offer examples of intervention at the individual, community, generational, and national levels. This inclusiveness (and a range of real-world illustrations from U.S. race relations to the Armenian genocide) gives readers access to not only the core issues of forgiveness and the dialogic nature of reconciliation, but also the intersecting psychological and social processes involved as they affect all participants in conflict. Highlights of the coverage: Reconciliation efforts in Rwanda, Darfur, India, and Pakistan. Restorative conferencing and its role in fostering forgiveness. Lessons in empathy and repentance from lifers in prison. Promoting reconciliation through arts and the media. The potential for forgiveness despite revisionism, denial, and continued injustice. Reconciliation in the divided society. Forgiveness and Reconciliation breaks new ground as a volume that will enhance the work of social and peace psychologists, students and researchers in intergroup and international relations, and peace and conflict studies.


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Before forgiveness
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ISBN: 1107205638 1139035894 9786613051998 1283051990 1139038214 1139042122 1139041355 1139044753 1139040588 0511762852 9781139042123 9780521199407 0521199409 9781107680203 1107680204 9780511762857 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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"In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New Testament, or in the early Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. It would still be centuries-- many centuries-- before the idea of interpersonal forgiveness, with its accompanying ideas of apology, remorse, and a change of heart on the part of the wrongdoer, would emerge. For all its vast importance today in religion, law, politics, and psychotherapy, interpersonal forgiveness is creation of the 18th and 19th centuries, when the Christian concept of divine forgiveness was finally secularized. Forgiveness was God's province, and it took a revolution in thought to bring it to earth and make it a human trait"--


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Gericht und Vergebung : Re-Visionen zum Amosbuch.
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ISBN: 9783460032149 3460032146 Year: 2010 Volume: 221 Publisher: Stuttgart Katholisches Bibelwerk

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