Forgive: Why Should I and How Can I?
by Timothy Keller
Keller's last book: forgiveness as both free and costly, the cultural shift away from it, what it is not (excusing, forgetting, trusting), and the practice of granting and seeking it. Pastoral and nuanced about justice.
Read it if…
you want a Christian account of forgiveness that takes justice seriously.
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Skip it if…
you want a clinical model; see Spring.
Try instead: You'll Get Through This →
Three things you will actually use
- Forgiveness is absorbing the debt.
- It does not exclude pursuing justice.
- Vertical before horizontal.
Do this first
Read the chapter on what forgiveness is not.
Our verdict
Forgiveness, with justice.
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