A masterful treatment of an exceptionally important set of issues surrounding forgiveness. It will become the standard work on forgiveness, and it also has lots to offer about love, justice, and the virtues of hope and humility.
John Lippitt is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Ethics and Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia and Professor of Ethics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of several books, including the Routledge Guidebook to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling and Kierkegaard and the Problem of Self-Love, as well as editor or co-editor of several more, including The Oxford
Handbook of Kierkegaard.