An Assessment Of Contemporary Models Of Forgiveness

Author : Célestin Musekura
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433108747
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Assessment of Contemporary Models of Forgiveness written by Célestin Musekura and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celestin Musekura had just begun doctoral studies in Dallas when he learned that many of his own family members had been killed in a wave of genocide reprisals back home in Rwanda. Revenge would have been understandable, but he said, 'I have preached forgiveness, and now it is my turn to practice it. To my family I say, I will pray for those who brutally murdered you, and I will care for their children.' It should come as no surprise that Celestin's understanding of forgiveness, well expressed in these pages, is restoring communities throughout sub-Saharan Africa. He knows and practices that of which he speaks. This book sets a course for realistic, collective transformation."-Robert A. Pyne, Th.D., Director, Peace and Justice Center, St. Norbert College --Book Jacket.

Author : Vee Chandler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666714690
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Boundaries of Forgiveness written by Vee Chandler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this well-researched and ethical study, Vee Chandler combines insight gathered from the writings of scholars and Christian philosophers with personal observations and biblical perspectives to examine the nature and value of forgiveness and help those struggling with the concepts of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Chandler begins by exploring key questions such as, When does God forgive and not forgive? and, What is God’s wrath and mercy? and then attempts to answer these questions by first defining terms according to their scriptural usage. She then examines the relationship between repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation according to the biblical model. In the second section, Chandler exegetically scrutinizes scriptural texts related to interpersonal forgiveness as well as passages concerning how God’s people should relate to their enemies and to evil persons. Finally Chandler examines the ethics of forgiveness from a moral and philosophical point of view, and ultimately establishes a model for forgiveness and reconciliation based on the biblical pattern and defended from a logical and ethical perspective. Biblical Boundaries of Forgiveness embraces the contribution of Christian philosophers while examining the nature and value of forgiveness from spiritual and moral viewpoints.

Author : Vee Chandler PhD
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 197364407X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Biblical Boundaries of Forgiveness written by Vee Chandler PhD and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a well-researched and ethical study, Vee Chandler, PhD combines insight gathered from the writings of scholars and Christian philosophers with personal observations and biblical perspectives to examine the nature and value of forgiveness and help those struggling with the concepts of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Dr. Chandler begins by exploring key questions such as When does God forgive and not forgive? and What is God’s wrath and mercy? and then attempts to answer these questions by first defining terms according to their scriptural usage and then examining the relationship between repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation according to the biblical model. In the second section, Dr. Chandler exegetically scrutinizes scriptural texts related to interpersonal forgiveness as well as passages concerning how God’s people should relate to their enemies and to evil persons. In conclusion, Dr. Chandler examines the ethics of forgiveness from a moral and philosophical point of view, and ultimately establishes a model for forgiveness and reconciliation based on the biblical pattern and defended from a logical and ethical perspective. Biblical Boundaries of Forgiveness embraces the contribution of Christian philosophers while examining the nature and value of forgiveness from spiritual and moral viewpoints.

Author : Craig E. Johnson
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544351658
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership written by Craig E. Johnson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow explores the ethical demands of leadership and the dark side of leadership. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from many fields of research to help readers make ethical decisions, lead with integrity, and create an ethical culture.

Author : Richard Hughes Gibson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474222196
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgiveness in Victorian Literature written by Richard Hughes Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgiveness was a preoccupation of writers in the Victorian period, bridging literatures highbrow and low, sacred and secular. Yet if forgiveness represented a common value and language, literary scholarship has often ignored the diverse meanings and practices behind this apparently uncomplicated value in the Victorian period. Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how eminent writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing pluralism in ethical matters. Richard Gibson discovers unorthodox uses of the language of forgiveness and delicate negotiations between rival ethical and religious frameworks, which complicated forgiveness's traditional powers to create or restore community and, within narratives, offered resolution and closure. Illuminated by contemporary philosophical and theological investigations of forgiveness, this study also suggests that Victorian literature offers new perspectives on the ongoing debate about the possibility and potency of forgiving.

Author : Maria Mayo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666703559
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Forgiveness written by Maria Mayo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demystifying an unrealistic ideal Maria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary life: so-called Victim-Offender Mediation involving cases of criminal injury, the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post-apartheid South Africa, and the pastoral care of victims of domestic violence. She shows that an emphasis on unilateral and unconditional forgiveness puts disproportionate pressure on the victims of injustice or violence and misconstrues the very biblical passages—especially in Jesus’ teaching and actions—on which advocates of unconditional forgiveness rely.

Author : Lucinda Mosher
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1626162859
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation written by Lucinda Mosher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sin, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation: Christian and Muslim Perspectives is a collection of essays and scripture passages studied at the 2014 Building Bridges seminar. Thoughtful and provocative, the book begins with the complete texts of the opening lectures by Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen and Jonathan A. C. Brown and contains essays by Christoph Schwöbel, Ayman Shabana, Susan Eastman, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Philip Sheldrake, and Asma Afsaruddin. Peppered throughout with relevant scripture passages and commentary, the text concludes with an extensive account of the informal conversations at the seminar that conveys the lively and respectful dialogue that is the hallmark of this meeting.

Author : Rodney L. Reed
Publisher : Langham Global Library
ISBN 13 : 1839736127
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Do You Say That I Am? written by Rodney L. Reed and published by Langham Global Library. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the church, there can be no more significant question than Christ’s Who do you say that I am? It is the cornerstone upon which all of Christian faith and praxis must stand. In this volume, the sixth from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, contributors explore the question of Christ’s identity – and its implications for the global church – from a distinctly African perspective. Engaging biblical studies, church history, and applications for missions, discipleship, and inter-religious dialogue, these essays utilize African hermeneutics and rich cultural perspectives to shed light on Christ’s contextual relevance for Africa and for the world. The final section is dedicated to the memory of John S. Mbiti, the father of modern African theology, who passed away in 2019.

Author : Veli-Matti Karkkainen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467445304
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirit and Salvation written by Veli-Matti Karkkainen and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This fourth volume in Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen’s ambitious five-volume systematic theology develops a constructive Christian pneumatology and soteriology in dialogue with the diverse global Christian tradition and with other major living faiths — Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.

Author : L. Gregory Jones
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868178
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgiving As We've Been Forgiven written by L. Gregory Jones and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christians are supposed to forgive others as we've been forgiven. But hearing the call to forgive is different from knowing how to practice forgiveness at home and in the world. Forgiveness is about more than the isolated acts and words of individuals. To forgive and be forgiven, we need communal practices and disciplines for a way of life that makes for peace. Greg Jones and Célestin Musekura describe how churches and communities can cultivate the habits that make forgiveness possible on a daily basis. Following the Rwandan genocide, Musekura lost his father and other family members to revenge killings. But then he heard God tell him to forgive the killers. The healing power of forgiveness in his own life inspired him to work for forgiveness and reconciliation across Africa. Jones, author of Embodying Forgiveness, interacts with Musekura's story to show how people can practice forgiveness not only in dramatic situations like genocide but also in everyday circumstances of marriage, family and congregational life. Together they demonstrate that forgiving and being forgiven are mutually reciprocating practices that lead to transformation and healing.