Title: Forgiveness, Reparation, and Remorse
Subtitle: Reckoning with Truthful Apology
Subject Classification:  Society and Culture, Philosophy, Law and Legal Ethics  
BIC Classification: HR, HP, JF
BISAC Classification: PHI005000, SOC051000, LAW036000
Binding: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Publication date: 04 Jan 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-80441-857-4
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-80441-858-1
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-80441-859-8

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Description

The authors explore a variety of traditions (historical and contemporary, religious and non-religious) about forgiveness, apologies, and resentment. They critically interact with the traditions to identify and synthesize the best from them all, and develop a new taxonomy of forgiveness. The traditions are also drawn on and re-imagined for situations of systemic wrongdoing in a new way.

The book explores why people want apologies (and sometimes something more, such as restitution) and why people consider them to be necessary. The authors discuss the reason as partly arising because people feel ‘resentment’ when they have been wronged. They therefore explore what resentment is, and why people feel resentment; recognizing that resentment can be effectively mitigated other than through apologies or like behaviour.

Reflections on power, leadership and authority thread their way through each chapter. In the final chapter, the book offers a proposed outline of a legal framework for apologies by public organizations that meet what the book identifies as cogent forms of institutional and organisational apologies and forgiveness.

This unique book addresses these relatively neglected topics, systematically and coherently.

Biography

Author(s):  Anthony Bash is an Honorary Professor at Durham University. Martyn Percy is Research Professor, Institut für Christkatholische Theologie, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Reviews

"In Forgiveness, Reparation, and Remorse: Reckoning with Truthful Apology, a leading scholar on forgiveness and remorse (Professor Bash) partners with one of our most versatile and thoughtful theologians (Professor Percy) to offer this marvelously readable work at this essential moment. We daily observe individuals, institutions, and even nations creating moral injury. Our papers and screens are populated by bad apologies and non-apologies that fail to acknowledge a moral wrong. No wonder we witness—and even experience—such powerful resentment in our world and in our lives! How might we move through this hailstorm of damage toward health and repair? Bash and Percy sift the scholarship, read novels, drama, memoir, and history, and reengage with the Christian tradition to consider how forgiveness has looked across the centuries and suggest future options and opportunities. Instead of offering a single normative definition, they note that forgiveness is what works for the people involved in it. This willingness to present readers with a multitude of examples of the work and unwillingness to prescribe one single approach leaves readers open to learn, grow, and repair themselves, and, one hopes, the world. This is an important and necessary book."
- Greg Garrett, The Carole McDaniel Hanks Professor of Literature and Culture, Baylor University, USA