Embodying Forgiveness

by Jones, L. Gregory

• ISBN13: 9780802808615
• ISBN10: 0802808611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-08-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

In an engaging and interesting style that draws on a wide variety of literature as well as on Scripture and theological texts, Jones shows how the practices of Christian forgiveness are richer and more comprehensive than often thought.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
PART I
The Cost of Forgiveness	3	(32)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Reclamation of a Christian Vision and Practice	3	(32)
Rejecting Cheap Grace: God's Forgiveness and the Practices of Christian Community	9	(14)
Is Forgiveness Effective? The Struggle against Encroaching Darkness	23	(12)
Therapeutic Forgiveness	35	(36)
The Church's Psychological Captivity in Western Culture	35	(36)
Problems with Forgiveness in Modern Western Culture	37	(2)
The Triumph of the Therapeutic	39	(8)
Therapeutic Forgiveness: Forgiving Hurts We Don't Deserve	47	(6)
The ``Revelation'' of Judgment	53	(6)
Rethinking Sin	59	(5)
Therapy and the Church's Eschatological Gospel	64	(7)
Forgiveness Eclipsed	71	(30)
Is Violence the Master of us All?	71	(30)
Forgiven No More	73	(4)
Can Violence Be Unlearned?	77	(6)
Engaging the Pervasiveness of Sin and Evil	83	(8)
Forgiven and Forgiving	91	(10)
PART II
Characterizing the God Who Forgives	101	(34)
The Triune God and Christian Life	101	(34)
Judaism, Jesus, and Forgiveness	105	(8)
The Father Who Wills Communion	113	(6)
The Advent(s) of Jesus Christ	119	(10)
New Life in the Spirit	129	(6)
Forgiveness, Repentance, and the Judgment of Grace	135	(28)
The Word That Transfigures Us in the Spirit	135	(28)
The Absense of God's Presence	137	(8)
The Judgment of Grace	145	(5)
The Dynamics of Forgiveness and Repentance	150	(10)
Conclusion: The Woman Who Showed Great Love	160	(3)
Practicing Forgiveness	163	(44)
Trinitarian Community and the Hope for a New Humanity	163	(44)
Baptism: Who Am I?	166	(9)
Eucharist: Remembering the Past in Hope for the Future	175	(7)
Reconciling Forgiveness: Sustaining Permeable Boundaries	182	(15)
Prayer and Healing: Living in the Power of God	197	(10)
PART III
The Craft of Forgiveness	207	(34)
Traditions, Parables, and Making and Remaking Responsible Human Life	207	(34)
Whose Forgiveness Is It Anyway?	210	(9)
Parables of Christian Forgiveness	219	(6)
Crafting Human Forgiveness	225	(16)
Loving Enemies	241	(38)
Living with Others in the Absence of Reconciliation	241	(38)
The Moral Significance of Anger, Hatred, and Retribution	243	(8)
God's Forgiveness, God's Vengeance, and Ours	251	(11)
Loving Enemies on the Path of Christian Forgiveness	262	(8)
Punishment and the Politics of Forgiveness	270	(9)
Is This a Story to Pass On?	279	(24)
Forgiveness, Holiness, and the Politics of Memory	279	(24)
This is Not a Story to Pass On: Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower	281	(9)
This is Not a Story to Pass On: Ivan Karamozov's Protest	290	(6)
This is Not a Story to Pass On: Producing Holy People	296	(7)
Index	303