Forgiveness Is a Virtue

Forgiveness Is a Virtue
Author: Sam E. Kraemer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-10-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9781973114048

Lover. Cheated. Heartbroken. Humiliated. Bitter. Thornton Marsh had experienced all of those emotions in rapid fire after the man he loved betrayed him, in their home, on their bed, on his parents' wedding quilt. He learned to live his life with all of those emotions buried deep, and he moved on. He became successful, made friends, and never allowed himself to become emotionally attached to another person who could destroy his mangled heart once and for all. It worked perfectly until one day when it didn't. Lover. Cheater. Destroyer. Alcoholic. Recovering. Kennedy Catrelle had lived with labels he received based on one horrible decision. He never had the opportunity to try to offer an explanation for his actions, but then again, when he ripped apart the world he was building with the man he loved, what was there really left to say?He learned to live his life with the assistance of people who cared about him, but they never made him feel he was worth their love. He accepted the responsibilities associated with his actions, and for the sake of an unexpected angel, he got to a better place in his life. It worked perfectly until a manuscript for a new novel found its way to his desk.Forgiveness. Two men are looking for how to give it and how to earn it. When they meet again, is there another chance for them? Forgiveness is one of the seven virtues, but in their broken states, are they able to find it?Please Note: This book contains material which may be offensive to some readers. It includes graphic language and/or adult situations and descriptions of sexual activity between two, consenting adult males. This fictional story is intended for adults over 18, is approximately 113,000 words in length, and doesn't end in a cliffhanger.

The Science of Virtue

The Science of Virtue
Author: Mark R. McMinn
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2017-08-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493411217

The church and science have drifted apart over the past century. Today the church is often deemed irrelevant by those who trust science, and science is often deemed irrelevant by those whose primary loyalties are to the church. However, this book shows that the new science of virtue--the field of positive psychology--can serve as a bridge point between science and the church and can help renew meaningful conversation. In essence, positive psychology examines how ordinary people can become happier and more fulfilled. Mark McMinn clarifies how positive psychology can complement Christian faith and promote happiness and personal flourishing. In addition, he shows how the church can help strengthen positive psychology. McMinn brings the church's experience and wisdom on six virtues--humility, forgiveness, gratitude, grace, hope, and wisdom--into conversation with intriguing scientific findings from positive psychology. Each chapter includes a section addressing Christian counselors who seek to promote happiness and fulfillment in others.

Resentment's Virtue

Resentment's Virtue
Author: Thomas Brudholm
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1592135684

Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a pathology. Resentment is viewed as a negative state, held by victims who are not "ready" or "capable" of forgiving and healing. Resentment's Virtue offers a new, more nuanced view. Building on the writings of Holocaust survivor Jean Améry and the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Thomas Brudholm argues that the preservation of resentment can be the reflex of a moral protest that might be as permissible, humane or honorable as the willingness to forgive. Taking into account the experiences of victims, the findings of truth commissions, and studies of mass atrocities, Brudholm seeks to enrich the philosophical understanding of resentment.

Forgiveness

Forgiveness
Author: Charles Griswold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2007-09-03
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521703514

The first comprehensive philosophical book on forgiveness in both its interpersonal and political contexts.

The Forgiving Life

The Forgiving Life
Author: Robert D. Enright
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1433810921

The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted emotional hurt. It does not minimize the devastation of that hurt. It does not require reconciliation with the one who inflicted the hurt. Rather, it describes a process, followed with success by people around the world, to confront the pain, rise above it to forgive, and in so doing, to loosen the grip of depression, anger, and resentment that has soured life. In this book, noted forgiveness expert Robert D. Enright invites readers to learn the benefits of forgiveness and to embark on a path of forgiveness, leaving behind a legacy of love. Guided by thought-provoking questions, journaling exercises, and Enright’s kind encouragement, readers can chart their own journey through a new life of forgiveness.

Forgiveness and Revenge

Forgiveness and Revenge
Author: Trudy Govier
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-02-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1135199094

Forgiveness and Revenge is a powerful exploration of our attitudes to serious wrongdoings and a careful examination of the values that underlie our thinking about revenge and forgiveness. From adulterous spouses to terrorist factions, we are surrounded by wrongdoing, yet we rarely agree which response is appropriate. The problem of how to respond realistically and sensitively to the wrongs of the past remains a perplexing one. Trudy Govier clarifies our thinking on this subject by examining the moral and practical impact of revenge and forgiveness, both personal and political. Forgiveness and Revenge offers much-needed clarity and reason where emotions often prevail. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethics of attitudes to wrongdoing.

Forgiveness and Moral Understanding

Forgiveness and Moral Understanding
Author: Hugo Strandberg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 303073174X

This book sets out to deepen our moral understanding by thinking about forgiveness: what does it mean for our understanding of morality that there is such a thing as forgiveness? Forgiveness is a challenge to moral philosophy, for forgiveness challenges us: it calls me to understand my relations to others, and thereby myself, in a new way. Without arguing for or against forgiveness, the present study tries to describe these challenges. These challenges concern both forgiving and asking for forgiveness. The latter is especially important in this context: what does the need to be forgiven mean? In the light of such questions, central issues in the philosophy of forgiveness are critically discussed, about the reasons and conditions for forgiveness, but mostly the focus is on new questions, about the relation of forgiveness to plurality, virtue, death, the processes of moral change and development, and the possibility of feeling at home in the world.

Forgiveness and Love

Forgiveness and Love
Author: Glen Pettigrove
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199646554

What is forgiveness? When is it appropriate? Is it to be earned or can it be freely given? Is it a passion we cannot control, or something we choose to do? Glen Pettigrove explores the relationship between forgiving, understanding, and loving. He examines the significance of character for the debate, and revives the long-neglected virtue of grace.

After Injury

After Injury
Author: Ashraf H.A. Rushdy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-05-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190851988

After Injury explores the practices of forgiveness, resentment, and apology in three key moments when they were undergoing a dramatic change. The three moments are early Christian history (for forgiveness), the shift from British eighteenth-century to Continental nineteenth-century philosophers (for resentment), and the moment in the 1950s postwar world in which British ordinary language philosophers and American sociologists of everyday life theorized what it means to express or perform an apology. The debates that arose in those key moments have largely defined our contemporary study of these practices.

Forgiveness Is a Choice

Forgiveness Is a Choice
Author: Robert D. Enright
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-06-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1433804808

By demonstrating how forgiveness, approached in the correct manner, benefits the forgiver far more than the forgiven this self-help book benefits people who have been deeply hurt by another and caught in a vortex of anger, depression, and resentment.