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THE SPIRITUALITY OF FORGIVENESS: THEOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND LINGUISTIC REFLECTIONS
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What does it mean to forgive? The answer is widely assumed to be self-evident but critical analysis quickly reveals the complexities of the subject. Forgiveness has traditionally been the preserve of Christian theology, though in the last half century - and at an accelerating pace - psychologists, lawyers, politicians and moral philosophers have all been making an important contribution to questions about and our understanding of the subject. Anthony Bash offers a vigorous restatement of the Christian view of forgiveness in critical dialogue with those both within and without the Christian tradition. Forgiveness is a much more complicated subject than many theologians recognize. Bash explores the relevance of the theoretical discussion of the topic to recent events such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, post-Holocaust trials, the aftermath of 9/11 and July 7 and various high-profile criminal cases.
This paper offers a re-appraisal of traditional Christian views about forgiveness. Many of the widely accepted axioms about forgiveness are found to be wanting. This paper offers a new approach to forgiveness that the writer hopes better accords with the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures and with modern discussion of the topic.
This paper offers a challenge to the construction of Sade as a liberating figure by western intellectuals Such readings invariably
intellectualise and mitigate the sufferings of the victim in his writings But rather than deny the need to engage with Sade's
worldview I shall contend that this is vital, especially if one wishes to advocate a post–Christian spirituality If one denies
a transcendent moral order or God, are we inevitably committed to the kind of universe Sade describes? Subverting aspects
of Sade's own thesis can provide the basis for a meaningful vision of humanity grounded in this world
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