Exploring Forgiveness Book

Robert Enright and Joanna North have produced a truly remarkable book on a subject of enormous relevance to our troubled world. I commend it to anyone who wants to wrestle seriously with one of the toughest issues that faces humankindhow to deal positively with real and deep offenses. Such offenses occur, both in our private lives and in larger society. Here are some penetrating concepts and practical ideas on how to creatively deal with those offenses through forgiveness. Surprising and powerful thoughts confront you as you read these pages on how to achieve true and lasting forgiveness.Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International Exploring Forgiveness is a most significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the most critical challenge facing human existence today: can people who have been injured and wronged surmount their hostilities and live together in peace?Lewis B. Smedes, professor emeritus of theology and ethics, Fuller Theological Seminary From Desmond Tutus Foreword to Robert Enrights comprehensive bibliography, this is a book worth reading. Someday we may speak, in one breath, of Kohlbergs moral stages, Gilligans ethical voices, and Enrights units of forgiveness.John Snarey, professor of human development and ethics, Emory University 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.Read More