Table of Contents

1. You Can't Just Flip Your Feelings 2. The Wilderness of Hurt 3. After Torture 4. A Duty to Forgive? 5. Anger, Resentment and Grudge 6. After Murder 7. Forgiveness as Spirituality 8. Forgiver Syndrome 9. Visiting Evil 10. Re-imagining Forgiveness 11. A Forgiving Heart 12. The Gifts of the Wise Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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How can we access the energy and wisdom needed to embark on the generous and healing venture of trust that we call forgiveness?

About the Author

Stephen Cherry is Director of Ministerial Development and Parish Support for Durham diocese, a Residentiary Canon of Durham Cathedral and a former Chaplain of King's College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Barefoot Disciple, the Archbishop of Canterbury's 2011 Lent Book.

Reviews

Healing Agony is a searching analysis of forgiveness challenging simplistic assumptions and asks questions to which there are no easy answers. Stephen Cherry is unafraid to confront the complexities of one of the great issues of our time.
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This fascinating book holds together a Christian hope in the ultimate possibility of forgiveness, even when faced with the deepest wounds, combined with an honest and realistic understanding of the complexity of the venture, as one tries to become, slowly, a forgiving person.
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There is something mysterious and deeply rewarding about reading a book which perfectly and beautifully sums up an internal dialogue that you've been having with yourself for years. I've been exposed to many theories and analyses on the meaning of forgiveness, but nothing has been presented to me with such clarity and eloquence as Healing Agony.This book is a welcome antidote to a growing movement which promotes forgiveness as a panacea for all ills and thus creates a social and moral imperative around something that is deeply personal, always different, and which should be free of obligation and guilt. It is about the best book I've read on this complicated subject.
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This is a very important book on a very important subject - forgiveness.
*REFORM Magazine, September 2012*