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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (29 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 184195358X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841953588
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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This examination of forgiveness explores the topic in the widest context, but underpinning it is the belief that religion has given us many of the best stories and metaphors for the act. It is a discourse on how forgiveness works and where it came from, and how it can enrich our humanity, whether or not we have religious beliefs. It draws on philosophers and writers such as George Steiner, Frederick Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Hannah Arendt and Nelson Mandela.

About the Author
Richard Holloway was the Bishop of Edinburgh for fourteen years and Gresham Professor of Divinity in the City of London. He has written for many newspapers - The Times, Guardian, Sunday Herald and The Scotsman and has presented his own television series on the BBC. On Forgiveness is his twenty-fourth book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A powerhouse of wisdom and ideas, 28 Aug 2002
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This little book immediately hooks you with the authors conviction and lucidity of thought. This is fresh and exciting thinking. Richard Holloway is a name that will alienate many readers because of his"controversial" views, but, read with a spirit of inquiry, this is tremendously rewarding reading.

He uses his source material well to illustrate his arguments (ranging from the Bible to Nietzche).

His main argument is that forgiveness of past wrongs liberates the future.

He deals with this on the individual and collective level. He deals with those acts of such magnitude they may be deemed 'unforgiveable' and where only the grace of 'unconditional forgiveness' (a rare gift) will work.

This will certainly lead me to explore Richard Holloway's other works.

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written and deeply affecting, 29 Aug 2002
'On Forgiveness' is dedicated to Desmond Tutu and takes as its epigraph a passage from Jacques Derrida's essay of the same title. There can be little higher praise than that it is worthy of these associations.

Holloway provides a short and eminently accessible introduction to the subject and its heritage in the Abrahamic religions. Without straying into theology, he is able to give a powerful demonstration of the importance of his subject while shedding significant light on Derrida's somewhat enigmatic position. His concluding reflections on the conflicts which dominate world affairs today are thought-provoking and deeply moving.

It is difficult to avoid reflecting that if more people were to think as carefully and clearly as Richard Holloway, there would many fewer persisting tragedies of this sort.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing fresh on forgiveness, 21 Oct 2003
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This slight book reflects all of the values and also the limitations of an author who, since retiring as a heroic liberal bishop in Scotland, has found no need to be constrained by the shackles of the institutional church, and now advises in the arts. I read the book (less than 100 pages) in an hour or so, wondering if he would reveal an understanding and experience of forgiveness beyond the institutional church, getting away from the assumption that forgiveness is largely a religious matter. The answer is No.

To be sure, he writes fairly well against traditional general ideas of God and claims to exclusive and revealed truth in his first chapter, though his "Godless Morality" is a better introduction. Holloway is at his best in the second and third chapters, writing about the messes we all get into - victim and wrongdoer - when we do not let go of the past; and the damage caused by not forgiving, even when one is seeking the apparently virtuous role of judging with truth. Indeed, his prose here is sometimes memorable and beautiful, releasing the poetic imagery found in his best books.

But his final chapter, in which he tries to describe unconditional forgiveness, reads like a so-so sermon from his file. He gives no personal examples of forgiving from his life or from others, and does not seem to have any fresh insight into what forgiving means or costs. So it's a very disappointing book for anyone hoping for a direction towards finding forgiveness, or for insight into how to forgive or to help others to do so; significantly Holloway does not refer to any major teachers or trainers in forgiveness apart from Desmond Tutu. One for fans of Holloway rather than fans of forgiveness.

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While the basic idea of releasing a victim from the burdens of victimhood, by forgiving without prompting is fine in itself, Mr Holloway has evidently had limited chance to have... Read more
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