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On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? (Canons)
Richard Holloway
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Description for On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? (Canons)
Paperback. 'The book everyone needs to read' JEANETTE WINTERSON, The Times Series: Canons. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
'Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject' PHILIP PULLMAN
In this inspiring work, Richard Holloway tackles the great theme of forgiveness. One of the most important books on this essential topic, On Forgiveness draws on the great philosophers and writers such as Frederick Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida and Nelson Mandela. Both timely and a timeless modern classic, On Forgiveness is a pertinent and fascinating discourse on how forgiveness works, where it came from and how the need to embrace it is greater than ever if we are to free ourselves from the binds of the past.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
Series
Canons
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782116288
SKU
9781782116288
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Ref
99-1
About Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway was Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church. A former Gresham Professor of Divinity and Chairman of the Joint Board of the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Screen, he is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His books include On Forgiveness, Looking in the Distance, Godless Morality, Doubts and Loves, Between the Monster and the Saint, Waiting for the Last Bus and Leaving Alexandria, which won the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013 and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. Richard Holloway has written for many newspapers in Britain, including The Times, Guardian, Observer, Herald and the Scotsman. He has also presented many series for BBC television and radio.
Reviews for On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgivable? (Canons)
Full of human wisdom, this is a psychologically acute and absorbing approach to a very important subject
PHILIP PULLMAN The book everyone needs to read
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Times
A clear account of the human impulse to forgive
Observer
Engaging
Sunday Times
I wish that more writers commanded Holloway's ability to write a small book about big ideas . . . His excellence as a spiritual agent provocateur lies in sticking to the essentials of his argument
The Times
An important book
Scotsman
A work of blinding sincerity and high intelligence
Spectator
A lively, thought-provoking, elegantly expressed essay which casts light on a problematic - and increasingly critical - subject
The Herald
[Holloway] writes persuasively and powerfully about our need to forgive ourselves in order to forgive others, and how what we're forgiving is people, not deeds. It humanises
DAMIAN BARR
Guardian
I don't know when I have been more impressed, indeed, excited, by a work. . . It answers the seemingly unanswerable tormenting questions in a completely satisfying way
RUTH RENDELL
PHILIP PULLMAN The book everyone needs to read
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The Times
A clear account of the human impulse to forgive
Observer
Engaging
Sunday Times
I wish that more writers commanded Holloway's ability to write a small book about big ideas . . . His excellence as a spiritual agent provocateur lies in sticking to the essentials of his argument
The Times
An important book
Scotsman
A work of blinding sincerity and high intelligence
Spectator
A lively, thought-provoking, elegantly expressed essay which casts light on a problematic - and increasingly critical - subject
The Herald
[Holloway] writes persuasively and powerfully about our need to forgive ourselves in order to forgive others, and how what we're forgiving is people, not deeds. It humanises
DAMIAN BARR
Guardian
I don't know when I have been more impressed, indeed, excited, by a work. . . It answers the seemingly unanswerable tormenting questions in a completely satisfying way
RUTH RENDELL