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Before Forgiveness - The Origins of a Moral Idea (Paperback)
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Before Forgiveness - The Origins of a Moral Idea (Paperback)
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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 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 a creation
of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the Christian
concept of divine forgiveness was fully secularized. Forgiveness
was God's province and it took a revolution in thought to bring it
to earth and make it a human trait.
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