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blame
community
compassion
discipline
domesticated
spirituality
excluding
people
healing
initiating (= 'active')
forgiveness
institutional
attitudes
labelling
leadership
letting-go
power
putting
persons first
reconciliation
repentance
solidarity
with sinners
telling our
stories
unconditional
forgiveness
values implied
by forgiveness |
Index of main themes : J-W return to : Index of main themes A-I |
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This
index enlarges on many of the major themes for understanding forgiveness better.
The short list on the left forms a sort of
'foundation' level or primer. It should convey how all-pervasive are the dimensions
of our lives where small-minded or 'domesticated' attitudes and behaviours need to be
addressed and transformed by the miracle of human forgiving :
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Judging |
Good judgement and bad judgement (passim)
If I were in his place
The
offender is our judge
The power to initiate forgiveness # 10
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Justice
and
see entries under
Punishment
and Restoration |
Are some sins too big?
Forgiveness
and justice
Justice is good; mercy is better
Seeing into a killer's mind
The death penalty doesn't close anything
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Labelling
also covering Condemning and Disgust
and see entries under
Talking to, not about, people and Excluding
people |
Constant focus on
sexual infidelity?
Despising
the afflicted
Dimensions of forgiveness # 2
Disgust and oppression
Forgive and comfort him
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1
Grace in a 'bad' man
Having a past
Hung
up on externals
'I am' the truth
Letting go hatred for the Holocaust
Pushing
people away
Recreate your past
Righteous
and a sinner
Seeing with better eyes
'Staying alive?' |
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Leadership |
Communities, institutions and belonging # 7
Good judgement and bad judgement # 4
His failure is your failure
Mandela - leadership in reconciliation
Small
and large acts of leadership
Taking sides against evil # 4-5, # 9
The dimensions of forgiveness # 2-3
The masculine-feminine spectrum in spirituality #3
The place of anger in enduring love # 13
The power to initiate forgiveness # 2, # 11-12
Trondheim : merciful justice
What glory do we seek?
When churches prevent God's forgiveness |
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Letting-go
also covering Passive forgiveness |
An elder brother returns home
Dimensions of forgiveness # 3-4
Empty hands
Letting go hatred for the Holocaust
Love and forgiveness
Seeing with better eyes
The power to initiate forgiveness # 5-6
The values implied by forgiveness # 5
Venom
Wanting to calm my fears
What motivates us to forgive? # 3
You are forgiven # 16 & #
18
'You are still carrying her' |
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Love |
Communities, institutions and belonging # 5
Four
qualities of love
Love and forgiveness
Love and forgiveness in 1 Corinthians (passim)
The
highest expression of love
Love and forgiveness
The place of anger in enduring love # 6
The way you are
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Male and female
attitudes
(to forgiveness) |
Civic
notions of forgiveness
Domestic
violence initiated by women
The masculine-feminine spectrum in spirituality # 2 |
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Motivation |
The masculine-feminine spectrum in spirituality # 1, # 3-5
What motivates us to forgive? (passim) |
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Myself, forgiving |
Compassion for yourself
Stories : Forgiving myself
You are forgiven # 15
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Omission, sins of |
A world of sin
Compassion and the posture of blame # 7
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Passive
forgiveness |
see Letting-go |
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Paedophilia |
Paedophiles are people too |
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Past, dealing with the |
Don't carry a corpse
Forgiving
and a kind of forgetting
Having a past
Just as a stopped clock
Recreate your past
What I have cleansed
Unforgiven - the movie # 2.2 |
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Persons
(the
primary value of) |
Constant focus on
sexual infidelity?
Losing self-worth?
Reconciliation
is the goal
The
purpose of forgiveness
The relationship, not the issue
The values implied by forgiveness # 6
Why is forgiveness so important? |
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Possessiveness |
Self-pity
The place of anger in enduring love # 4-5 |
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Power
and see entries under Energy |
An assertion of dignity
Compassion and the posture of blame # 5
Losing self-worth?
No problem
Only for the weak?
Should forgiveness be unconditional? # 4
Strong to forgive
Taking sides against evil # 7
The power to forgive
The power to initiate forgiveness # 2-3, # 6-8 & # 11-13
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Practical forgiveness |
A gift he does not deserve
Dharma and Greg
Forgiveness : Why and How # 5
Forgiving my father
Loving your enemy
Only for the weak?
The 'no-name' game # 6
The relationship, not the issue
You are forgiven # 18-20 |
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Prayer, meditation |
Discipline without destruction # 2
Forgiveness : Why and How # 8
Forgiving my father
I bear no grudge
I cannot forgive him
Spiritual midwife |
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Privatising relationships |
see Domesticated spirituality |
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Punishment
and
see entries under Justice |
Compassion and the posture of blame # 2 & # 3
Discipline
and punishment
The
greatest offence
The Spanish Prisoner
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Recognition of one's own guilt |
see
Solidarity with sinners and Repentance |
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Reconciliation
also covering Restoration |
A 'place' for forgiveness to aim for
Compassion and the posture of blame # 3
Forgive and comfort him
Forgiveness : Why and How # 3
How Christ delivers reconciliation (passim)
Reconciliation
is the goal
Should forgiveness be unconditional? # 6
Talking with an IRA bomber
The 'no-name' game # 5
The
purpose of forgiveness |
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Repentance
also covering Conversion
and see entries under
Solidarity
with sinners |
Dimensions of forgiveness # 5
Forgiveness
invites conversion
Forgiving
and a kind of forgetting
Hard work and belonging # 2
No problem
Repentance is not forgetting
Should forgiveness be unconditional? # 3
Success, blame and a sinner
Two
types of people
Yom Kippur : Acknowledging my wrongs
You are forgiven # 3, # 5-6,
# 17 & # 20
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Research into forgiveness |
I too have
transgressed
Northern ireland / Standford Hope project
Practical forgiveness
Professor launches forgiveness course
'Scientific' forgiveness
Testing two forgiveness programs |
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Resentment |
Forgiveness : Why and How # 2 & # 6
Resentment
'Staying alive?'
The power to initiate forgiveness # 7
Venom |
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Restitution |
Justice through restitution |
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Restoration |
see Reconciliation |
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Revenge |
see
Unforgiveness |
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Righteous anger |
The place of anger in enduring love #13
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Scapegoating |
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1
Yom Kippur - acknowledging my wrongs |
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Seeing
(= judging) better
and see entries under
Bi-focal
vision |
The dimensions of forgiveness #5
Forgiveness : Why and How # 5
Good judgement and bad judgement # 3-4
Pettiness
Seeing the real source of our pain
Seeing with better eyes |
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Sin |
A world of sin
Confessions of a 'justified sinner'
Good judgement and bad judgement # 5
Hung
up on externals
Righteous
and a sinner
Success, blame and a sinner
The values implied by forgiveness #4
Unforgiven - the movie # 1-3 |
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Solidarity with sinners
also covering Empathy |
A community of guilt
A world of sin
Communities, institutions and belonging # 2
Compassion and the posture of blame # 4, # 7-8
Empathy and guilt
Ending a marriage
Forgiveness
and Christlike suffering
Going
further
His failure is your failure
If I were in his place
Only for the weak?
Seeing into a killer's mind
Solidarity
in discipline
The death penalty doesn't close anything
There indeed by the grace of God go I
They'd just make me feel worse
Two
types of people
Unforgiven - the movie # 2.1 & # 3
What motivates us to forgive? # 5
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Talking
to, not about,
other
people
and see entries under
Labelling |
Dharma and Greg
Forgive and comfort him
Forgiving each other
'I am' the truth
Letting go hatred for the Holocaust
The 'no-name' game # 7
The use we make of truth |
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Telling our stories
and
see entries under
Court
of 'just conversation' and Solidarity with sinners |
A community of guilt
Compassion and the posture of blame # 4, # 7-8
Empathy and guilt
Forgive and comfort him
Forgiving each other
Friendship and being 'real' (Communities #2)
Seeing into a killer's mind
Talking with an IRA bomber
The use we make of truth
They'd just make me feel worse
Unforgiveness and superficial myth-making |
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Thrownness
also covering Givenness |
Communities,
institutions and belonging # 6 & #
7 |
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Transformation |
Are some sins too big?
Corporate
forgiveness
Insoluble problems
Only for the weak?
Organisational
forgiveness
Reward the good, forgive the bad
Growing into deeper spirituality # 3, # 5-6
The values implied by forgiveness # 6
Welcoming change |
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Truth |
'I am' the truth
The 'no-name' game # 2 & #5
The use we make of truth
Unforgiven - the movie # 2.3
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Unconditional forgiveness |
But
will he sin again?
Forgiveness : Why and How - misconception 4
Hard work and belonging # 4
I am far too just
Justice is good; mercy is better
Seeing with better eyes
Should forgiveness be unconditional? (passim)
The
highest expression of love
The power to initiate forgiveness # 1
This man is forgiven
Wait a minute
Writing off bad debts |
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Unforgivable sin |
The place of anger in enduring love # 15 |
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Unforgiveness
also
covering Hardness of heart, Revenge and Vengeance |
A world of sin
Absence of passion
Compassion and posture of blame # 2
Preaching
moral conversion
Revenge
: easing my own guilts
Seeing the real source of our pain
Unforgiven - the movie (passim)
Vengeance
and self-righteousness
You are forgiven # 2-3 & #
5
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Values implied by forgiveness |
'As we forgive'
Forgiveness
and a kind of forgetting
Good judgement and bad judgement # 7
The highest level
The values implied by forgiveness (passim)
What motivates us to forgive? # 4-6 |
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Vengeance |
see
Unforgiveness |
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Victim |
Despising the afflicted
Self-pity
The
offender is our judge
The power to initiate forgiveness # 8
Victims
who purchase compassion
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Withdrawal |
see Excluding people |
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