Embodying Forgiveness

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.

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

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