Rethinking Christian Forgiveness e-bog

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 landscapescontinental philosophy, Anglo-American moral philosophy, and psychologyto establish a phenomenology of forgiving before turning to contemporary Christian literature. The multilayered dialogue that ensues challenges the assumptions of contemporary approachessecular and Christianand invites the reader to rethink the meaning of Christian forgiveness.