
Forgiveness, Reparation, and Remorse
Reckoning with Truthful Apology
Ethics International Press Ltd
Published on 4. January 2025
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-80441-857-4 (ISBN)
Description
The authors explore a variety of traditions (historical and contemporary, religious and non-religious) about forgiveness, apologies, and resentment. They critically interact with the traditions to identify and synthesize the best from them all, and develop a new taxonomy of forgiveness. The traditions are also drawn on and re-imagined for situations of systemic wrongdoing in a new way.
The book explores why people want apologies (and sometimes something more, such as restitution) and why people consider them to be necessary. The authors discuss the reason as partly arising because people feel 'resentment' when they have been wronged. They therefore explore what resentment is, and why people feel resentment; recognizing that resentment can be effectively mitigated other than through apologies or like behaviour.
Reflections on power, leadership and authority thread their way through each chapter. In the final chapter, the book offers a proposed outline of a legal framework for apologies by public organizations that meet what the book identifies as cogent forms of institutional and organisational apologies and forgiveness.
This unique book addresses these relatively neglected topics, systematically and coherently.
The book explores why people want apologies (and sometimes something more, such as restitution) and why people consider them to be necessary. The authors discuss the reason as partly arising because people feel 'resentment' when they have been wronged. They therefore explore what resentment is, and why people feel resentment; recognizing that resentment can be effectively mitigated other than through apologies or like behaviour.
Reflections on power, leadership and authority thread their way through each chapter. In the final chapter, the book offers a proposed outline of a legal framework for apologies by public organizations that meet what the book identifies as cogent forms of institutional and organisational apologies and forgiveness.
This unique book addresses these relatively neglected topics, systematically and coherently.
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bury St Edmunds
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80441-857-4 (9781804418574)
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Persons
Anthony Bash is an Honorary Professor at Durham University. Martyn Percy is Research Professor, Institut für Christkatholische Theologie, University of Bern, Switzerland.