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Many endorse the idea of personal forgiveness without fully understanding its complexity and subtlety. This book is a careful and detailed theological exploration of personal forgiveness. It sets forgiveness in its ancient and biblical context, as well as drawing on contemporary debates among philosophers, psychological therapists, and international relations theorists. Forgiveness is written in...

victims can choose to keep in mind the wrong and not let it go, or they can put it behind them and move on. In relation to wrongdoers, victims can let go, and so release, wrongdoers from their wrongs, or they can choose to continue to connect wrongdoers with the wrongdoing. Aphiēmi and aphesis are also used when one person remits the debts of another. It is a word taken from the world of business and commerce. Metaphorically, the wrongs people did against one another or against God were sometimes
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