| Title | The Long Road to Forgiveness |
| Publication Type | Web Article |
| Pub Year | 1999 |
| Authors | Layton, M. |
| Publisher | Utne Reader |
| Keywords | fairness, forgiveness |
| Notes |
forgiveness"In contrast to justice and acceptance, forgiveness is not only the recovery of our spirit, but also the enlargement of that spirit--somehow, some way--to imagine the humanity of the injuring person. And why would we want that? In a great injury, something is broken, psychologically or spiritually. The break not only erodes our sense of living in a fair world, corrupts our experience of our own worth, and fragments our control over our own lives and emotions; it also fundamentally damages our faith in the worthiness of others. It is that loss of the other that we absorb, and somehow transform, in forgiveness." |
| URL | http://www.utne.com/1999-03-01/ApologyNotAccepted.aspx |
