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blame
community
compassion
discipline
domesticated spirituality
excluding
people
healing
initiating (= 'active')
forgiveness
institutional
attitudes
labelling
leadership
letting-go
power
putting
persons first
reconciliation
repentance
solidarity
with sinners
telling our
stories
unconditional
forgiveness
values implied
by forgiveness |
Index of main themes : A-I jump to : Index of main themes J-W |
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This
index enlarges on many of the major themes for understanding forgiveness better.
The short list on the left forms a sort of
'foundation' level or primer. It should convey how all-pervasive are the dimensions
of our lives where small-minded or 'domesticated' attitudes and behaviours need to be
addressed and transformed by the miracle of human forgiving :
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Abuse |
After false
accusation
The
values implied by forgiveness # 3
When abuse distorts forgiveness |
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Accusation |
After false
accusation
'Staying alive?'
The 'no-name' game # 3-4 |
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Active
forgiveness
and see entries under Initiating |
A gift he does not deserve
Dimensions of forgiveness # 3-4
His failure is your failure
Isn't it only for the weak? (FAQ)
The power to forgive
The power to initiate forgiveness # 2-3 & # 6
The
values implied by forgiveness # 3
What motivates us to forgive? # 3 |
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Alcoholics Anonymous |
Testing two Forgiveness programs (passim) |
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Anger |
The place of anger in enduring love (passim) |
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Apologising |
Forgiveness : Why and How # 1
I am far too just
You
need to hear them say sorry |
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Asking for forgiveness |
Should
forgiveness be unconditional? # 2
Wanting to calm my fears |
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Atonement, Jesus' |
How Christ delivers reconciliation (passim)
What I have cleansed
You are forgiven #7 |
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Authority |
The power to initiate forgiveness # 2, # 5-8, & # 13 |
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Avoiding people or conflict |
see Excluding people |
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Belonging |
Communities,
institutions and belonging # 7-8 |
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Bi-focal
vision
and
see entries under Seeing |
Art and the difficulty of representing forgiveness
Growing into deeper spirituality # 4
The dimensions of forgiveness # 5
Good judgement and bad judgement # 3-4
Righteous and a sinner |
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Blame |
Compassion and the posture of blame # 1, # 5
Ending a marriage
Going
further
Guilt and blame
Most
personal problems
'Staying alive?'
Success, blame and a sinner
The power to initiate forgiveness # 11
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'Born
again'
=
being given a new identity or life |
An elder brother returns home
Forgiving my father
Hard work and belonging # 4
Spiritual midwife
You are forgiven # 13 & #
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'Bounded' attitude |
see Excluding people |
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Bourgeois world-view |
see Domesticated spirituality |
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'Centred'
attitude
contrasted
with excluding people |
Love and forgiveness in 1 Corinthians # 2
On not excluding others # 4-6
You are forgiven # 14 |
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Churches |
see Community and Institutional attitudes |
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Community |
A community of guilt
A 'place' for forgiveness to aim for
Civic notions of forgiveness
Communities, institutions and belonging (passim)
Forgiveness
invites conversion
Love and forgiveness in 1 Corinthians # 3
The power to initiate forgiveness # 10
You are forgiven # 19 |
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Compassion |
Compassion
Compassion and the posture of blame (passim)
Compassion
for yourself
Forgiving my daughter's killer
Four
qualities of love
How much is it worth?
Sparing him greater grief
The power to initiate forgiveness # 9
There indeed by the grace of God go I |
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Condemning |
see Labelling |
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Confession |
James 5.14-16 / 1 John 1.8-10
Confessions
of a justified sinner
The 'no-name' game # 6
You are forgiven # 17 |
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Confrontation |
The place of anger in enduring love # 3 |
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Conversion |
see Repentance |
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Counselling |
Compassion and the posture of blame # 5-6
Empathy and guilt
Forgive and comfort him
How not to counsel
Most
personal problems
Only for the weak? |
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Court of
'just conversation'
and
see entries under Telling our stories |
Forgiving each other
Taking sides against evil # 9
The power to initiate forgiveness # 11 |
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Criticism,
responding to
also covering Fault-finding |
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1 & # 4
Kalyana-mitra
Loving your enemy
On not excluding others # 5
Self-pity
'Staying alive?'
The 'no-name' game # 2
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Death penalty |
Are
some sins too big?
Forgiving a
murderer
Seeing into a killer's mind
The death penalty doesn't close anything
The
values implied by forgiveness # 3 |
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Debt forgiveness |
Dimensions of forgiveness # 1
Forgive us our international debts
Forgiveness
inside different types of communication
Student loan forgiveness
Writing off bad debts |
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Demonising another person |
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1
Having a past
Recreate your past |
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Discipline
also covering Restoration |
Discipline and punishment
Discipline without destruction (passim)
Going
further
Good judgement and bad judgement # 5-6
His failure is your failure
Reconciliation
is the goal
Solidarity
in discipline
The
greatest offence
The 'no-name' game # 5
The place of anger in enduring love # 7-8
The power to initiate forgiveness # 7 & # 11
When churches prevent God's forgiveness
You are forgiven # 20 |
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Disgust |
see Labelling |
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Domesticated spirituality
also
covering Bourgeois world-view and Privatising
relationships |
Communities,
institutions and belonging # 2
Constant focus on sexual infidelity?
Forgiveness
inside different types of communication
Hung up on externals
Privatising
forgiveness
The values implied by forgiveness # 1-4
Unforgiven - the movie # 2.3
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Empathy |
see Solidarity with sinners |
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Enemy, loving your |
Christian weapons
Empathy for the enemy
Letting go hatred for the Holocaust
Loving your enemy
Seeing with better eyes
Talking with an IRA bomber
The power to initiate forgiveness # 8 |
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Energy
and see entries under Power |
The place of anger in enduring love # 3-5 |
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Evil |
Bidding goodbye to evil
Campaigning against evil
Good judgement and bad judgement #1
Taking sides against evil # 1 , # 3
, # 8
The place of anger in enduring love # 11, #
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Excluding people
also covering Avoiding people or conflict,
Bounded attitude, Excommunication and Withdrawal |
Compassion and the posture of blame # 3
Despising
the afflicted
Discipline without destruction # 1
Forgiving my father
Good
intentions which conceal rejection
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1 & # 5
Having a past
No problem
On not excluding others (passim)
Pushing
people away
The place of anger in enduring love # 3
The power to initiate forgiveness # 7 & # 10
The values implied by forgiveness # 5
The void of benign neglect
They'd just make me feel worse
Wanting to calm my fears
When churches prevent God's forgiveness |
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Excommunication |
see Excluding people
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Fault-finding |
see Criticism, responding to |
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Forgetting |
Forgive and
forget
Forgiveness
and a kind of forgetting |
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Freedom |
Beginning to be free
Dimensions of forgiveness # 5
For freedom
Into freedom and glory
Spiritual midwife
The power to initiate forgiveness # 4
To
love your neighbour as yourself
What motivates us to forgive? # 4 |
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Friendship |
Communities, institutions and belonging # 2 |
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Giving-for someone |
Building someone a roof
Charge
it to me
Dimensions of forgiveness #2-3
Good judgement and bad judgement # 6
How Christ delivers reconciliation # 2-5
& # 9
I cannot forgive him
Paid the fine
The letter or the spirit
To
love your neighbour as yourself
You are forgiven # 11 |
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Gossip |
Good judgement and bad judgement # 1
The 'no-name' game (passim) |
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Grace |
A gift he does not deserve
Grace and mercy
Grace in a 'bad' man
Justice is good; mercy is better
The place of anger in enduring love # 11
'There indeed by the grace of God go I'
You are forgiven # 11 |
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Guilt |
Going
further
Good judgement and bad judgement # 2
Guilt and blame
Most
personal problems
The place of anger in enduring love # 9
The power to initiate forgiveness # 11
The Spanish Prisoner
Two
types of people
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Hardness of heart |
see Unforgiveness |
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Healing |
A healing community
But will he forgive again?
Civic notions of forgiveness
Compassion for yourself
Discernment and healing
Love and forgiveness
New organs, new life
Policeman and robber in Wyoming
Practical forgiveness
Racial division and forgiveness
'Scientific'
forgiveness
Scottish victims give life to Palestinian girl
Seeing with better eyes
Spiritual midwife
The power to initiate forgiveness # 4 |
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Initiating
and see entries under
Active
forgiveness |
A unique Christian view?
After false accusation
Dharma and Greg
Dimensions of forgiveness # 1 & # 4-5
Father and son
Forgiveness : Why and How #7
Hard work and belonging # 4
His failure is your failure
Jesus walked his talk
The power to forgive
The power to initiate forgiveness (passim) |
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Institutional attitudes |
A unique Christian view?
Can
we forgive institutions?
Communities, institutions and belonging # 3
Compassion and the posture of blame #3 & #7-8
Forgiveness
inside different types of communication
Having a past
The place of anger in enduring love # 13 & # 15
The Spanish Prisoner
The values implied by forgiveness # 5
When churches prevent God's forgiveness
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