“Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” I pray those words every Sunday morning at Bogart Christian Church, and I think I have a basic idea of what I mean when I do. But that sense of solid knowledge conceals philosophical and theological disputes not only what the verb “to forgive” and the noun “forgiveness” mean but also how those realities relate to violence, reconciliation, narrative, memory, and all sorts of other complex matters. In his recent book Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, Matthew Ichihashi Potts proposes that to ask God to forgive us as we forgive is a matter of analogy, not identity, and the temporality and finitude of human existence stand crucially important to our understanding and our practicing forgiveness. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome the Doctor Reverend Potts to the show.
Nathan Gilmour interviews John Dadosky on his recent book "The Eclipse and Recovery of Beauty: A Lonergan Approach."
David Grubbs talks with Michael Allen about his recent book (with Scott Swain), "Reformed Catholicity."
“I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.” When I first read those words from St....