Before Forgiveness The Origins of a Moral Idea

Name: Before Forgiveness The Origins of a Moral Idea
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ISBN: 9781107680203

ISBN-10: 1107680204

ISBN-13: 9781107680203

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Konstan

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In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. Even more startlingly, it is not fully present in the Hebrew Bible, nor again in the New Testament, or in the early Jewish and Christian commentaries on the Holy Scriptures. It would still be centuries-- many centuries-- before the idea of interpersonal forgiveness, with its accompanying ideas of apology, remorse, and a change of heart on the part of the wrongdoer, would emerge. For all its vast importance today in religion, law, politics, and psychotherapy, interpersonal forgiveness is creation of the 18th and 19th centuries, when…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English




What is forgiveness?



Before forgiveness: Greeks and Romans on guilt and innocence



Did they forgive? Greek and Roman narratives of reconciliation



Divine absolution: the Hebrew and Christian bibles



Humility and repentance: the church fathers



Enter forgiveness: the self transformed