E-book
No future without forgiveness
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307566287 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307566285 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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287 p. ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c1999.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "An Image book". |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group, 2009. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2405 KB). |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console |
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| Subject: | South Africa -- Race relations Forgiveness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
| Genre: | EBOOK. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
The Nobel Prize-winner and former Archbishop of Capetown, South Africa, shares a profound message of forgiveness and hope that argues that, to move effectively forward into the future, one must recognize and forgive the horrors of the past to in order to achieve true reconciliation. - Random House, Inc.
The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience.
In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past. But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation "looks the beast in the eye." Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another, and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. With a clarity of pitch born out of decades of experience, Tutu shows readers how to move forward with honesty and compassion to build a newer and more humane world.
