The Book of Forgiving
Title | The Book of Forgiving PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond Tutu |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0062203584 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Chair of The Elders, and Chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, along with his daughter, the Reverend Mpho Tutu, offer a manual on the art of forgiveness—helping us to realize that we are all capable of healing and transformation. Tutu's role as the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission taught him much about forgiveness. If you asked anyone what they thought was going to happen to South Africa after apartheid, almost universally it was predicted that the country would be devastated by a comprehensive bloodbath. Yet, instead of revenge and retribution, this new nation chose to tread the difficult path of confession, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Each of us has a deep need to forgive and to be forgiven. After much reflection on the process of forgiveness, Tutu has seen that there are four important steps to healing: Admitting the wrong and acknowledging the harm; Telling one's story and witnessing the anguish; Asking for forgiveness and granting forgiveness; and renewing or releasing the relationship. Forgiveness is hard work. Sometimes it even feels like an impossible task. But it is only through walking this fourfold path that Tutu says we can free ourselves of the endless and unyielding cycle of pain and retribution. The Book of Forgiving is both a touchstone and a tool, offering Tutu's wise advice and showing the way to experience forgiveness. Ultimately, forgiving is the only means we have to heal ourselves and our aching world.
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
Title | The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World PDF eBook |
Author | Archbishop Desmond Tutu |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0007512899 |
The Book of Forgiving, written together by the Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his daughter Revd Mpho Tutu offers a deeply personal testament and guide to the process of forgiveness.
Forgiving Forward
Title | Forgiving Forward PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Wayne Hebel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2011-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9781936983001 |
The Hebels present the opportunity to learn heaven's protocols of forgiveness and how to accurately apply them. The tools this book teaches will restore marriages, reunite families, and unify churches.
No Future Without Forgiveness
Title | No Future Without Forgiveness PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond Tutu |
Publisher | Image |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2009-02-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0307566285 |
The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience. In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past. But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation "looks the beast in the eye." Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another, and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. With a clarity of pitch born out of decades of experience, Tutu shows readers how to move forward with honesty and compassion to build a newer and more humane world.
The Forgiving Life
Title | The Forgiving Life PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Enright |
Publisher | American Psychological Association |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2012-01-15 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1433810921 |
The Forgiving Life offers scientifically supported guidance to help people forgive those in their lives who have acted unfairly and have inflicted emotional hurt. It does not minimize the devastation of that hurt. It does not require reconciliation with the one who inflicted the hurt. Rather, it describes a process, followed with success by people around the world, to confront the pain, rise above it to forgive, and in so doing, to loosen the grip of depression, anger, and resentment that has soured life. In this book, noted forgiveness expert Robert D. Enright invites readers to learn the benefits of forgiveness and to embark on a path of forgiveness, leaving behind a legacy of love. Guided by thought-provoking questions, journaling exercises, and Enright’s kind encouragement, readers can chart their own journey through a new life of forgiveness.
The Forgiveness Book
Title | The Forgiveness Book PDF eBook |
Author | D. Patrick Miller |
Publisher | Hampton Roads Publishing |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 2017-03-01 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1612833896 |
Forgiveness is the science of the heart; a discipline of discovering all the ways of being that will extend your love to the world and discarding all the ways that will not. This is a book about growing up, becoming whole, connecting to others, and becoming comfortable in one's own skin. It is inspirational, healing, and programmatic. Miller explores the facts of forgiveness, including forgiving others, forgiving oneself, and the results of following the path of forgiveness. Also included is a section on forgiveness exercises (including journaling, making amends, and practicing patience). This is a broadly based spiritual and self-help book. Rooted in the philosophy of A Course in Miracles and drawing from other spiritual teachings (including Christianity, Sufism, Buddhism, the I Ching, and Jungian psychology), The Forgiveness Book is for those interested in spirituality, wholeness, and living a better and more fulfilling life.
Forgiving and Reconciling
Title | Forgiving and Reconciling PDF eBook |
Author | Everett L. Worthington Jr. |
Publisher | InterVarsity Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2009-08-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0830875263 |
God calls us to forgive those who have hurt us, but that's often easier said than done. Combining insights from his professional research and personal experience, Everett L. Worthington, Jr. shows what it takes (intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally) to move toward and beyond forgiveness and to cross the bridge to reconciliation.