FaithQuestions - How Can I Forgive?: A Study of Forgiveness
by Joretta L. Marshall
Category: Religion

What do the Bible and the Christian faith teach about forgiveness? What is God's role in the process of forgiveness? Does the process of forgiveness require us to excuse actions such as battering or sexual abuse? How can I forgive someone who has betrayed me? How Can I Forgive? will explore questions like these and others. The study will develop a way of talking about forgiveness that makes sense in the contemporary world and explore practical advice for receiving and offering forgiveness through the grace offered by God in Christ. It is designed to meet the needs of those who want to live true to the prayer "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us" but who may be skeptical of the ways in which the concept of forgiveness is misunderstood and misused to increase guilt, control, and social inequality.