Is there such a thing as -Christian Forgiveness-? Christians speak as though there is. But what would it be? How would it differ from forgiveness as a basic human enactment? And if there is a distinctive Christian forgiveness, what might it have to say to our world today? To answer these questions, the present work traverses three distinctive intellectual landscapes-continental philosophy, Anglo-American moral philosophy, and psychology-to establish a phenomenology of forgiving before turning to contemporary Christian literature. The multilayered dialogue that ensues challenges the...
Is there such a thing as -Christian Forgiveness-? Christians speak as though there is. But what would it be? How would it differ from forgiveness as a...