The book of forgiving : the fourfold path for healing ourselves and our world / Desmond Tutu and Mpho A. Tutu ; edited by Douglas C. Abrams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: San Francisco : HarperOne, 2014Edition: First EditionDescription: 229 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062203564
  • 0062203568
  • 9780062203571 (pbk)
  • 0062203576 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 179/.9 23
LOC classification:
  • BJ1476 .T88 2014
Contents:
Summary: "Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the worst crimes people can inflict on others. So wherever he goes, he inevitably gets asked this question. This book is his answer. Writing with his daughter, Mpho, an Anglican priest, they lay out the simple but profound truths about the significance of forgiveness, how it works, why everyone needs to know how to grant it and receive it, and why granting forgiveness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves when we have been wronged."
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Introduction: into wholeness -- Part One: Understanding forgiveness. Why forgive? -- What forgiveness is not -- Understanding the fourfold path -- Part Two: The fourfold path. Telling the story -- Naming the hurt -- Granting forgiveness -- Renewing or releasing the relationship -- Part Three: all can be forgiven. Needing forgiveness -- Forgiving yourself -- A world of forgiveness.

"Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has witnessed some of the worst crimes people can inflict on others. So wherever he goes, he inevitably gets asked this question. This book is his answer. Writing with his daughter, Mpho, an Anglican priest, they lay out the simple but profound truths about the significance of forgiveness, how it works, why everyone needs to know how to grant it and receive it, and why granting forgiveness is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves when we have been wronged."

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