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Failures of Forgiveness: What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

Myisha Cherry argues that it is more fruitful to view forgiveness as a journey, not a single decision, writes Paul Dornan.

Myisha Cherry
Princeton University Press, 240 pages | Published September 19, 2023

Failures of Forgiveness is an accessible, thoughtful book that offers a useful corrective to an overly narrow definition of forgiveness, in which forgiveness is seen as a swift, automatic response to a wrong by the victim of that wrong. The author maintains that the traditional Christian understanding of forgiveness, as reflected in Jesus’ words from the...

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