Exploring Forgiveness

✍ Scribed by Robert D. Enright, Joanna North, Archbishop Desmond Tutu

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pioneers in the study of forgiveness, Robert Enright and Joanna North have compiled a collection of twelve essays ranging from a first-person account of the mother of a murdered child to an assessment of the United States’ post-war reconciliations with Germany and Vietnam. This book explores forgiveness in interpersonal relationships, family relationships, the individual and society relationship, and international relations through the eyes of philosophers and educators as well as a psychologist, police chief-turned-minister, law professor, sociologist, psychiatrist, social worker, and theologian.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 8
Contributors
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Foreword: Without Forgiveness There Is No Future / Archbishop Desmond Tutu
......Page 14
1. Introducing Forgiveness / Robert D. Enright and Joanna North
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2. The Power and Reality of Forgiveness: Forgiving the Murderer of One's Child / Marietta Jaeger
......Page 24
3. The "Ideal" of Forgiveness: A Philosopher's Exploration / Joanna North
......Page 30
4. The Metaphysics and Morality of Forgiveness / Keith E. Yandell
......Page 50
5. The Psychology of Interpersonal Forgiveness / Robert D. Enright, Suzanne Freedman, and Julio Rique
......Page 61
6. Anger and the Healing Power of Forgiveness: A Psychiatrist's View / Richard Fitzgibbons
......Page 78
7. The Process of Forgiveness in Marriage and the Family / Paul W. Coleman
......Page 90
8. Forgivers and the Unforgivable / Beverly Flanigan
......Page 110
9. Forgiveness and Crime: The Possibilities of Restorative Justice / Walter J. Dickey
......Page 121
10. Forgiveness in the Community: Views from an Episcopal Priest and Former Chief of Police / The Reverend David Couper
......Page 136
11. Is There Forgiveness in Politics? Germany, Vietnam, and America / Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
......Page 146
12. Expanding Our Options: The Challenge of Forgiveness / Joseph W. Elder......Page 165
Comprehensive Bibliography on Interpersonal Forgiveness / Robert D. Enright
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Index
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