| Description |
1 online resource (196 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Lost Homeland; The Stories by which we Live; Method; 1 Narratives of a Modern Dilemma; Introduction; The Story of Myra Hindley; The Story of Mary Bell; The Story of James Bulger; The Story of Sarah Payne; Conclusion; 2 Responses to Sin and Forgiveness in Art and Literature; Introduction; Rembrandt and the Parable of the Prodigal Son; Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower; Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; Bernhard Schlink's The Reader |
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Alice Walker's 'Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning'Conclusion; 3 The Move to a Contemporary View of Sin; Introduction; The Fractured Meta-narrative of Christianity in Britain; The Impact of Secular Social Policies on Perceptions of Sin; The Emergence of the Concept of Structural Sin; Sins Identified by Liberation Theology; Sins Identified by Feminist Theology; Conclusion; 4 Contemporary Perspectives on Forgiveness; Introduction; A New Order of Social Values; A New Age Community; Freud and the New Therapies; Self-help Books; Institutes of Forgiveness; Conclusion |
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5 The Persistence and Intensification of Structural SinIntroduction; Our New Confusion; Poverty; Slavery; Violence and War; Conclusion; 6 How Do We Live Together?: Final Conclusions; Introduction; The Transition to New Paradigms; What Secularization Has Offered; Retributive or Restorative Justice?; The Truth and Reconciliation Commission; The Power of Memory: Do We Forgive and Forget?; Looking to the Future; Postscript; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351769990 |
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1351769995 |
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