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      Forgiveness

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      Forgiveness book

      Forgiveness

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      Forgiveness book

      ByEve Garrard, David McNaughton
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 23 December 2014
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710228
      Pages 160
      eBook ISBN 9781315710228
      Subjects Humanities
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      Garrard, E., & McNaughton, D. (2010). Forgiveness (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315710228

      ABSTRACT

      Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone, and is always the right thing to do. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really amounts to. They argue that it is more difficult, complex and troubling than many of its advocates suppose. Nevertheless, they conclude, a proper understanding of forgiveness allows us to avoid cheap and shallow forms of it, and enables us to see why it is right and admirable to forgive even unrepentant wrongdoers.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|19 pages

      Th e debate about forgiveness

      chapter 2|22 pages

      Th e case against forgiveness

      chapter 3|21 pages

      A third way?

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Th e case for forgiveness I: what the psychologists say

      chapter 5|24 pages

      Th e case for forgiveness II: meeting the objections

      chapter 6|20 pages

      Th e case for forgiveness III: the positive arguments

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