While forgiveness has historically been regarded as a religious concern, it has also become a popular topic in contemporary psychology. Unfortunately, there has been little effort to combine a Christian understanding of forgiveness with psychology. The Faces of Forgiveness, winner of the Narramore Award from the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, steps in to fill this void.
The authors fuse Christian forgiveness and psychology with the unifying motif of the face; thereby building on the considerable psychological research linking emotions related to forgiveness with the human face. At a deeper level, the face can serve as a metaphor for integrating forgiveness, wholeness, and salvation. The authors argue that forgiveness should take a central role in our understanding of salvation because it is warranted by the Bible and engages our postmodern context.
Pastors, psychologists, family counselors, and students of psychology and theology will find The Faces of Forgiveness a helpful resource.
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A psychologist and theologian combine the two disciplines to offer illuminating insights into what forgiveness really means.
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
Part 1. Faces of Forgiveness in Psychology
2. Forgiveness and Intersubjective Formation
3. Saving Faces
Part 2. Faces of Forgiveness in Theology
4. Facing, Forgiveness, and the Christian Doctrine of Salvation
5. Forgiveness as Sharing in Divine Grace
Part 3. Modeling Forgiveness: Interdisciplinary Explorations
6. Facial Hermeneutics
7. Salvation by Face

Bibliography
Index
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801026249
Publisert
2003-05-01
Utgiver
Baker Publishing Group; Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing Group
Vekt
444 gr
Høyde
251 mm
Bredde
147 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
270

Om bidragsyterne

F. LeRon Shults (Ph.D., Princeton University; Ph.D., Walden University) is professor of theology at Agder University in Kristiansand, Norway, and the author of several books, including Reforming the Doctrine of God and Reforming Theological Anthropology.

Steven J. Sandage (Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University), a licensed psychologist, is the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Theology at Boston University and director of the Danielsen Research Center at the Danielsen Institute. He coauthored To Forgive Is Human.

Shults and Sandage are the coauthors of The Faces of Forgiveness, winner of the Narramore Award from the Christian Association for Psychological Studies.