Monotheism and forgiveness / S. Mark Heim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heim, S. Mark, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and monotheism, 2631-3014.

Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and monotheism, 2631-3014

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monotheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (66 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Forgiveness is a hallmark teaching within monotheistic religions. This Element introduces the topic in three ways. First, it considers the extent to which forgiveness is specific to or constituted by monotheistic beliefs, by a comparison with analogous teaching and practice in Buddhism. Second, the most extensive section explores the grammar of forgiveness shared across the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam - elements of repentance, intercession, and eschatological deferral. This section identifies some of the divergent tendencies or emphases on this topic among those traditions. A third section addresses the role of forgiveness and monotheistic religions in human cultural evolution and the emergence of eusociality. The aim is for the reader to gain an introductory view of monotheism and forgiveness from a comparative religious example, from an internal examination of Abrahamic traditions, and from a developmental, secular perspective.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Monotheism and Forgiveness

Contents

Introduction

What Is Forgiveness?

Monotheism

Plan of the Element

1 Forbearance and Forgiveness

1.1 Monotheism

1.2 Buddhism and Forbearance

1.2.1 The Perfection of Forbearance

1.2.2 Three Insights

1.3 Two Parables

1.4 Forgiveness as Therapeutic Wisdom

1.5 Monotheism and the Future

2 Forgiveness within and among the Abrahamic Monotheisms

2.1 A God Who Forgives

2.2 Monotheistic Concentration

2.2.1 Within God

2.2.2 Between God and Creation

2.3 Common Elements

2.3.1 A Common Story

2.3.2 Repentance and Forgiveness

2.3.3 Repentance and Law

2.3.4 Hard Cases

2.4 Variations

2.4.1 What Must Be Forgiven

2.4.2 Intercession

Cost of Repentance and Intercession

2.4.3 Forgiveness and Atonement

Atonement 1: What Makes Forgiveness Possible?

Atonement 2: What Does Forgiveness Make Possible?

2.5 Summary

3 Forgiveness and Human Community

3.1 Forgiveness in the Human Story

3.2 Forgiveness as Altruism

3.3 Forgiveness and Cooperation

3.4 The Excess of Universal Forgiveness

Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Feb 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-66048-7

1-108-66595-0

1-108-64268-3

OCLC:

1301542879