Understanding and Facilitating Forgiveness

by David G. Benner

Book Overview

Pastors may realize the role bitter thoughts are playing for a person in pain. They need a guide to Understanding and Facilitating Forgiveness to help the person toward wholeness. This volume does not minimize the difficulties. Chapters on the possibility, necessity, and difficulty of forgiveness share what forgiveness is, what it is not, and how to model God's spirit of forgiveness.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801090199
• ISBN13: 9780801090196
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Baker Publishing Group (MI)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Table of Contents

PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FORGIVENESS Chapter 1: The Importance of Forgiveness Chapter 2: The Possibility of Forgiveness Chapter 3: The Necessity of Forgiveness Chapter 4: The Difficulty of Forgiveness PART TWO: FACILITATING FORGIVENESS Chapter 5: The Role of Forgiveness in Pastoral Care Chapter 6: Case Study I Chapter 7: Case Study II Chapter 8: Case Study IIIThe authors help pastoral counselors present God's grace in healing forgiveness issues, especially for those who have built a wall of bitterness from past pain. They examine the complex emotions of unforgiveness. They address the problems of an inability to forgive, an inability to receive forgiveness, and an inability to forgive oneself.