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The Possibilities of Forgiveness
Author(s) -
Couenhoven Jesse
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of religious ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.306
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1467-9795
pISSN - 0384-9694
DOI - 10.1111/jore.12019
Subject(s) - forgiveness , economic justice , focus (optics) , sociology , epistemology , environmental ethics , social psychology , psychology , political science , law , philosophy , physics , optics
Perhaps the best way to challenge anodyne popular conceptions of forgiveness is to highlight the ways in which “forgiveness,” like “justice” and “freedom,” is a rich and deeply contested term that relies for its content on divergent convictions about who we are and who we should seek to be. The essays in this focus issue articulate some of the many possibilities for practicing and thinking about forgiveness.