Helping People Forgive

by David W. Augsburger

Using resources from Scripture, theology, and the social sciences, pastoral counselor David Augsburger explores the complicated issues of Christian forgiveness and reconciliation and their real-world applications. Comprehensive in scope and fully illustrated with numerous charts, graphs, case studies, and parables, Helping People Forgive is a unique and essential resource for clergy and pastoral counselors.

Genres: Counselling

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1996

Reviews

[Renee Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Helping People Forgive by David W. Augsburger was one of my books for seminary for my Interpersonal Forgiveness class. This book was such a compliment to The Road Home by Darrell Puls. This one is more academic, but I found myself learning new things I've never learned before like the word "forgrieving." According to Augsburger the process of forgiveness follows the same cycle as grief. Fascinating!

[Neil White · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are several good quotes, especially at the beginnings of chapters, but overall this was more of a psychological and philosophical approach to forgiveness looking at classical psychoanalysis, Alasdair McIntyre, Rene Girard and others. I'm not sure that this book actually helps people to forgive as the title indicates. Rather it invites them to analyze forgiveness and the beginning story of Betty Jane Spenser as told by Richard Lord seems to reflect the majority of the struggle of the book.