How should we respond to injuries done to us and to the hurts that we inflict on others? In this book Solomon Schimmel guides us through the meanings of justice, forgiveness, repentance, and reconciliation. In doing so, he probes to the core of the human encounter with evil, dra…
Offers a critical dissection of the apology and its implications, looking not only at individuals, but at groups and nations, revealing the feelings and actions of this interaction and illuminating a hidden corner of the human heart.
"This volume is the first full-length study of penthos (tears of contrition) since Hausherr's in 1944. It traces its exposition in the early eastern Christian tradition, through detailed analysis of Greek and Syriac texts by Klimakos, Ephrem, Isaac and Symeon the New Theologian.…
"This volume is the first full-length study of penthos (tears of contrition) since Hausherr's in 1944. It traces its exposition in the early eastern Christian tradition, through detailed analysis of Greek and Syriac texts by Klimakos, Ephrem, Isaac and Symeon the New Theologian.…
Olick looks at how catastrophic, terrible pasts, Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa, are remembered, but he is particularly concerned with the role that memory plays in social structures. Memory can foster any number of things, social solidarity, nostalgia, civil war, but it a…
