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Subject(s)

• Forgiveness [Browse]
• Forgiveness—Religious aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Allers, Christopher R. [Browse]
• Smit, Marieke [Browse]

Series

• At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 66. [More in this series]
• At the interface/probing the boundaries, 1570-7113 ; v. 66 [More in this series]

Summary note

• Amidst the cacophony of claims made about forgiveness, this book serves to aid in an effort to put "forgiveness in perspective." Marieke Smit and Christopher R. Allers have collected here ten essays written by twelve authors from around the world and across the disciplinary spectrum including philosophers, practitioners, psychologists, literary theorists, and prison chaplains. All the essays offer a perspective on forgiveness and put forgiveness in perspective whether by tracing what forgiveness "is," how this religious inheritance is worked out in our secularizing societies, how forgiveness works in our quotidian experience, or a particular manifestation in a particular context such as marriage, prison, or after an abortion, to name a few. The multi-disciplinary character of this book provides a multi-disciplinary appeal as well as a resource to enlarge one's own perspective on this perplexing, enigmatic, and wonderfully complex concept of forgiveness
• Marieke Smit is a researcher at the Center for Prison Pastoral Care at the University of Tilburg. The Netherlands. Her research concerns the role of forgiveness in detention. She is also working as a prison chaplain in Dutch prisons.
• Christopher R. Allers (M.A., Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto) is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Cornerstone University (Grand Rapids, MI) and Sessional Instructer in Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto (ICS) where he is also a doctoral student in the conjoint degree program between ICS and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is currently working on a dissertation on forgiveness which is tentatively titled The Miracle of Forgiveness. --Book Jacket.

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Contents

• Introduction : putting forgiveness in perspective : some first words, no last word / Christopher R. Allers and Marieke Smit
• Forgiveness : a quiet assault on the malicious / Steve Larocco
• Undoing what has been done : Arendt and Levinas on forgiveness / Christopher R. Allers
• Forgiving grave wrongs / Alisa L. Carse and Lynne Tirrell
• Moral bystanders and the virtue of forgiveness / Linda Radzik
• If God cannot forgive, what becomes of harmony? : the strength of a victim's moral prerogative not to forgive / Regan Lance Reitsma
• From the religious to the political apology : how the religious prehistory of apology makes sense of collective responsibility / Danielle Celermajer
• In search of forgiveness : men and abortion in post-Catholic Ireland / Fergus Hogan
• Reconciling irreconcilable differences through forgiveness / Carla S. Ross
• Prisoners and forgiveness / Marieke Smit
• The community response to violence : do rituals of healing support forgiveness? / Barbara Flood and Christina Tomacic-Niaros.

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ISBN

• 9789042029958
• 9042029951

OCLC

656547448

RCP

H - S

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