A Psychology of Grace is based on the belief that few if any of us want to think of ourselves as a bad person. We want to see ourselves as a good person, a person worthy of love and respect. This may seem like a benign or even a noble desire. But it can lead to a life of self justification, a life in which much of what we think and say and do is directed by the self justifying strategies we use to protect and promote our feeling of being a good person. We can embrace that life if we choose. Many of us do. Or we can do something different and choose grace. The focus of this book, therefore, is...