Christian Humanist Profiles 238: Matthew Ichihashi Potts

December 04, 2022 01:03:36
Christian Humanist Profiles 238: Matthew Ichihashi Potts
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 238: Matthew Ichihashi Potts

Dec 04 2022 | 01:03:36

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Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

“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.

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