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Faces of Forgiveness Searching for Wholeness and Salvation

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ISBN-10: 0801026245

ISBN-13: 9780801026249

Edition: 2003

Authors: F. LeRon Shults, Steven J. Sandage

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While forgiveness has historically been regarded as a religious concern, it has also become a popular topic in contemporary psychology. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to combine a Christian understanding of forgiveness with psychology. The Faces of Forgiveness, winner of the Narramore Award from the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, steps in to fill this void. The authors fuse Christian forgiveness and psychology with the unifying motif of the face; thereby building on the considerable psychological research linking emotions related to forgiveness with the human face. At a deeper level, the face can serve as a metaphor for integrating forgiveness, wholeness, and…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Baker Academic
Publication date: 5/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 270
Size: 5.79" wide x 9.88" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Relationality and Interdisciplinarity
Hermeneutics and the Face
Forgiveness: Three Fields of Meaning
Faces of Forgiveness in Psychology
Forgiveness and Intersubjective Formation
Forgiveness and Intersubjectivity
The Facial Mediation of Forgiveness
Forgivingness
Conclusion
Saving Faces
Saving and Losing Face
Face to Face
Systemic Estrangement
Relational Hermeneutics
Sacred Faces
A Model of the Forgiveness Process
Conclusion
Faces of Forgiveness in Theology
Facing, Forgiveness, and the Christian Doctrine of Salvation
The Theological Significance of Facing
The Mysterious Divine Countenance
The Face of Jesus Christ
The Presence of the Holy Spirit
The Theological Significance of Forgiveness
Forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible
Forgiveness in the New Testament
Forgiveness in the Christian Tradition
Soteriology after the Turn to Relationality
Substantial Problems in the Doctrine of Salvation
From Ordo Salutis to Salutary Ordering
Salvation as Sharing in the Divine Nature
Forgiveness as Sharing in Divine Grace
Forgiveness and Faith
Facing Epistemic Anxiety
Finding Personal Identity in Jesus Christ
Knowing in Sacramental Community
Forgiveness and Love
Facing Ethical Anxiety
Dying to Sin with Jesus Christ
Acting in Baptized Community
Forgiveness and Hope
Facing Ontological Anxiety
Conforming to the Image of Jesus Christ
Being in Eucharistic Community
Modeling Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Facial Hermeneutics
Case Study: "Faces of Contempt"
Case Interpretation
Intertextual Explorations
Salvation by Face
Case Study: "Demanding to Be Faced"
Case Interpretation
Intertextual Explorations
Bibliography
Index