Journal Article Review 2 SELF-FORGIVENESS: THE STEPCHILD OF FORGIVENESS RESEARCH COUN 504 Hozie Grasty 10/18/2008 Journal Article Review 2 In the second article I chose to read‚ Hall and Fincham (2005) discuss the concept of self-forgiveness. Their analysis seeks to get to the heart of what it means and essentially what it takes to forgive oneself for wrongdoing and reckless abandon. Enright (1996) defines self-forgiveness as “a willingness to abandon self-resentment in the face of
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is: what is forgiveness? What does it look like? What isn’t it? We have heard from Jesus that it is necessary. It is not icing on the cake of Christianity. If we don’t experience it and offer it to others‚ we will perish in our sin. So it is tremendously important to know what this is that is so essential to our eternal life. Let me begin with a definition of forgiveness. Forgiveness is not feeling angry or resentful toward someone for an offense‚ flaw‚ or mistake. Forgiveness helps us feel
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or not I would have granted the dying SS soldier forgiveness. When it comes to the topic of forgiveness‚ most of us will readily agree that to forgive a wrong done to us‚ is a noble deed. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of whether we can forgive a wrong done to someone else. Whereas some are convinced that we can forgive and comfort someone who has wronged another‚ others maintain that we cannot extend forgiveness on behalf of someone else. I cannot imagine being
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things in church (and out of church too) without thinking of what we are saying. For instance‚ we say in the Creed " I believe in the forgiveness of sins." I had been saying it for several years before I asked myself why it was in the Creed. At first sight it seems hardly worth putting in. "If one is a Christian‚" I thought " of course one believes in the forgiveness of sins. It goes without saying." But the people who compiled the Creed apparently thought that this was a part of our belief which we
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Magnuson and Robert D. Enright is a research article based on the study of forgiveness. This article guides the reader through steps on how to work towards forgiveness as an individual‚ through the church‚ and into the community‚ and also how to then sustain the forgiving community that has been built through this forgiveness education. Magnuson and Enright propose a three-tiered holistic psycho-educational approach to forgiveness education called “The Forgiving Communities.” They state‚ “The goal of
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Definition Essay Forgiveness by the World English Dictionary is the “act of forgiving; state of being forgiven‚ disposition or willingness to forgive”. But what does it really mean? That is my question. Is being able to forgive and not forget the same thing? In my life‚ I have found that true forgiveness is a quality that separates us from other species and it is what makes us human. In order to truly and sincerely forgive‚ one must‚ aside from saying they have forgiven the person‚ let it go and
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impossible moral position of offering forgiveness‚ implicitly‚ in the name of the six million. Placing a Jew in this anguished position further victimizes him or her. This‚ in my reading‚ was the final sin of the dying Nazi." (Eugene J. Fisher) A Nazi officer is asking to be forgiven by a Jew in the name of all Jews whose public execution was the cornerstone of everything he pledged himself to believe when he became a Nazi. He is asking for private forgiveness‚ not from the person he has harmed
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is to offer mercy to someone who has acted unjustly (Magnuson; and Enright‚ 2008). The study of forgiveness in this research article leads us down a path of insightful hopefulness for reconciliation‚ peace‚ trust‚ self-esteem and greater self-actualization. Along with humanistic values this article gives the reader a deeper comfort in the mercies that is given from a greater high power when forgiveness is asserted. The overall premise of “The Forgiving Community‚” as an initial model was a great
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Must one ask for forgiveness to receive this freely given gift from God? This seems to be a question that‚ at first hearing‚ rubs most people I have asked the wrong way. It seems to be the common theme of every altar call‚ “Come down to the altar‚ get on your face before God‚ and ask him to forgive your sins.” Are we expected to ask God to forgive our sins as if there is a chance he will not? I do not believe so‚ but I believe this is the burden that many people carry in their heart when approaching
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especially for the invaders who may have killed hundreds‚ to thousands of their enemy as it provided a way of forgiving their sins. Because God was not available to personally give them forgiveness‚ it was declared that priests and bishops could act on Gods behalf to provide salvation for those asking for forgiveness. The benefit of penance was that it could make one
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