Just Forgiveness: Exploring The Bible, Weighing The Issues

by Anthony Bash

Overview

Anthony Bash offers new insights into forgiveness from a biblical perspective, taking into account important findings in philosophy, politics and psychology.

The book explores what the Bible says about forgiveness so that we can better experience its regenerative and renewing effects. It also looks at what the Bible says in the light of two thousand years of thought about forgiveness. It does so in the belief that, if forgiveness is to be meaningful, it must be just.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780281063994
Publisher:	SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Publication date:	02/17/2011
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anthony Bash is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham Universityand Chaplain at Hatfield College, Durham University. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Forgiveness and Christian Ethics (Cambridge UniversityPress, 2007) and How to Study the New Testament (Zondervan, 1988)

Table of Contents

Part 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1 The dilemma of forgiveness 3
2 Awkward facts 13
3 Repentance and justice 20
4 A starting point 26
5 'Forgivenesses' - thick and thin 35
Part 2
NEW TESTAMENT TEXTS
6 Forgiveness as a gift 43
7 Forgiveness as letting go 50
8 Forgiveness as letting go in Mark's Gospel 59
9 Forgiveness as letting go in Matthew's Gospel 70
10 Forgiveness as letting go in Luke-Acts 83
11 Forgiveness as letting go in the rest of the New Testament 101
Part 3
REFLECTIONS
12 Other types of forgiveness 117
13 The Brighton bombing: just forgiveness explored 128
14 Stepping back 139