Eric’s Reviews > Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis > Status Update
Eric
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"To love our enemies is to not permit our anger to ossify into hatred or persistent desire for their diminishment or destruction, as such would be complicity in sin. Feelings of hatred and vengeance might surface, but they must be struggled against, as habits and desires for these things not only perpetuate violence, but constrict and distort the vision of the hater."
— Aug 19, 2023 06:15PM
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Eric
is on page 127 of 333
"Jesus' pardon is all-powerful because it calls us, as those who have been forgiven, to seek forgiveness from those we have sinned against and to offer forgiveness to those who have sinned against us. Such forgiveness does not abandon the importance of reparation for the former or justice for the latter, but it does transform the context in which they are to be understood and embodied."
— May 13, 2023 01:11PM
Eric
is on page 121 of 333
"Those who are forgiven by Jesus are called to embody that forgiven-ness in the new life signified by communion with Jesus and with other disciples....forgiven-ness calls believers to live penitent lives that seek to reconstruct human relationships in the service of heart and life."
— Apr 25, 2023 02:49AM
Eric
is on page 47 of 333
"We are called out of our self-obsession by the One who invites us to friendship with God and with one another...on this understanding, it is as difficult to learn to accept forgiveness from God or others as it is to offer it; but such invitations are far more likely to enable people to see the world and themselves truthfully than are calls to simply will ourselves to be 'more forgiving' as part of an isolated life."
— Mar 14, 2023 09:21AM
