The purpose of this project was to impact Christian married couples from Foundational Counseling Services through participation in an eight-week study on communication, conflict resolution and forgiveness. The project included quantitative and qualitative pre-test, post-test des…
Forgiveness and reconciliation as acts to be experienced and practiced by Catholic parents in their daily personal and familial relationships where alienation and conflicts happen was the focus of this project. Research on the historical development of practices of forgiveness a…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the forgiveness experience by examining first-person accounts of those who had forgiven. The research question was “what was the experience of those who have granted forgiveness to others?” Generic qualitative inquiry was used to inve…
The exploration of self-forgiveness (SF), religious strain (RS), and depression has received limited attention in psychiatric inpatient populations. I hypothesized that SF would be inversely associated with depression, RS, and religious fear and guilt. I also hypothesized that R…
This thesis explores forgiveness narratives in the musical theatre of Oscar Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim in the 1940s and 1970s respectively. First, Charles Griswold’s definition of interpersonal forgiveness is thoroughly explored and then tested for its universality acro…
This dissertation explores the intersection of forgiveness and religion in G.W.F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. I argue that religion and forgiveness can be profitably understood as parallel communicative practices through which a community affirms its sense of that which has…
College students undergo identity development in emerging adulthood, including adjustments in relationships, exploration of occupations, and revisions of spiritual worldviews (Arnett, 2000). Using a modified portion of Lent’s (2004) normative model of life satisfaction, this stu…
This study examines Christian adult’s perceptions, practices of, and tendencies towards the phenomenon of forgiveness. Research in the field up to this date is valuable in understanding forgiveness theory, efficacy of forgiveness models, as well as the impact of religion and spi…
This dissertation examines elements which are particular to the Turkish society and Turkish social dynamics that impact the experience of forgiveness and reconciliation, emphasizing those used to attain forgiveness by the Turkish church. It also formulates a plan that aims at es…
This dissertation examines the doctrines found in Hanafi fiqh literature concerning just retribution and its alternatives: forgiveness, blood money, and settlement among the parties. These options are alternatively sanctioned against homicide and bodily harm, both of which fall …
This major and original research project shows how restorative justice dialogue works, and highlights the role of forgiveness within it. Based on interviews of victims who went through Victim Offender Dialogue, it looks at how energy shifts in dialogue between offender and victi…
"This major and original research project shows how restorative justice dialogue works, and highlights the role of forgiveness within it. Based on interviews of victims who went through Victim Offender Dialogue, it looks at how energy shifts in dialogue between offender and vict…
This major and original research project shows how restorative justice dialogue works, and highlights the role of forgiveness within it. Based on interviews of victims who went through Victim Offender Dialogue, it looks at how energy shifts in dialogue between offender and victi…
"If you've ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day and some other people's too, this book is for you. Or if you feel angry every single day and it's affecting your health and sleep and love of life. Or if you've got very good reason…
If you've ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day and some other people's too, this book is for you. Or if you feel angry every single day and it's affecting your health and sleep and love of life. Or if you've got very good reasons…
This thesis explores the theme of interpersonal forgiveness in the Gospel of Matthew and argues that the idea of interpersonal forgiveness is quite central to this Gospel. Its main foci are on demonstrating the centrality of this theme in the Gospel and understanding the nature …
This book brings together a unique combination of experts in the area of conflict resolution and focuses on the role forgiveness can play in the process. It deals with the theology, public policy, psychological and social theory, and social policy implementation of forgiveness. …
The scholarly study of forgiveness and leadership is a relatively new frontier. Despite numerous historical examples of leaders who have made significant impacts through forgiveness, the concept has failed to attract attention from leadership scholars, with a few notable excepti…
This study examines the contrast between בִּשְׁגָגָה and בְּיָד רָמָה in Num 15:22-31, with the aim of clarifying the definition for both terms in relation to one another. It begins with a survey of the context of the passage and clarifies the methodology to be employed. Chapter 2 covers t…