An Assessment of Contemporary Models of Forgiveness examines recent psychological and theological models of forgiveness and introduces the concept of communal forgiveness nurtured and mediated through the community of faith. The psychological models are generally individualistic…
"Collective forgiveness is in no way inferior to love in its mysteriousness. Although we usually act thoughtfully and rationally, many actions and decisions cannot seem to be logically derived. Forgiveness -- everyone knows it and has experienced it -- is one of them. This book …
Collective forgiveness is in no way inferior to love in its mysteriousness. Although we usually act thoughtfully and rationally, many actions and decisions cannot seem to be logically derived. Forgiveness -- everyone knows it and has experienced it -- is one of them. This book i…
Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds. € Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh. € As the many Truth …
This book is concerned with the aporias, or impasses, of forgiveness, especially in relation to the legacy of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II. Banki argues that, while forgiveness of the Holocaust is and will remai…
by Banki, Peter
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This text addresses the difficulties posed by the Holocaust for a thinking of forgiveness inherited from the Abrahamic (i.e., monotheistic) tradition. As a way to approach these difficulties, it explores the often radically divergent positions in the debate on forgiveness in the…
by Derrida, Jacques, Wieviorka, Michel
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Comment penser la religion aujourd'hui sans rompre avec la tradition philosophique? Et qu'est-ce que pardonner après la Shoah, si le seul pardon qui vaille consiste à pardonner l'impardonnable? Deux sujets de réflexion complémentaires de l'oeuvre de J. Derrida sur les urgences h…
by Derrida, Jacques, Wieviorka, Michel
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"Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, this book argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original forgiveness, an indispensable condition for the prospect of human re…
