Healing agony : re-imagining forgiveness / / Stephen Cherry
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| Autore: |
Cherry Stephen
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| Titolo: |
Healing agony : re-imagining forgiveness / / Stephen Cherry
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2012] |
| ©2012 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 234/.5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Forgiveness - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | You can't just flip your feelings -- The wilderness of hurt -- After torture -- A duty to forgive? -- Anger, resentment and grudge -- After murder -- Forgiveness as spirituality -- Forgiver syndrome -- Visiting evil -- Reimagining forgiveness -- A forgiving heart -- The gifts of the wise. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | One of the most profound challenges a human being can ever face is how to forgive in the aftermath of injury, hurt or violation. Healing Agony explores the theology of forgiveness alongside a number of contemporary forgiveness stories in order to glean insights for those facing just this challenge. While God's forgiveness is revealed to be a simpler matter than is sometimes imagined, forgiveness between human beings is shown to be far more difficult, enigmatic and open-ended. This book offers a map of the rugged terrain that victims of serious harm, or those who seek to accompany them, will ne |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Healing agony |
| ISBN: | 1-283-47834-X |
| 9786613478344 | |
| 1-4411-5615-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461494703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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