![]() Griswold is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides and the New Testament, the church fathers, and Thomas Aquinas. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent or, at all events, more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. Ramelli 12 Forgiveness and Perfection: Maimonides, Aquinas, and Medieval Departures from Aristotle 216 Jonathan Jacobs Bibliography of Works Cited 237 Index 253 Citation previewĪncient Forgiveness Classical, Judaic, and Christian In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the premodern Western world. Hawkins 10 Jesus’ Conditional Forgiveness 176 Jennifer Wright Knust 11 Forgiveness in Patristic Philosophy: The Importance of Repentance and the Centrality of Grace 195 Ilaria L. Morgan 9 A Man Had Two Sons: The Question of Forgiveness in Luke 15 158 Peter S. Judaic and Christian Forgiveness 8 Mercy, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Ancient Judaism 137 Michael L. ![]() ![]() Forgiveness among the Romans 5 The Anger of Tyrants and the Forgiveness of Kings 79 Susanna Morton Braund 6 Gender and Forgiveness in the Early Roman Empire 97 Kristina Milnor 7 “To Forgive Is Divine”: Gods as Models of Forgiveness in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome 115 Zsuzsanna V á rhelyi IV. ![]() ![]() Forgiveness among the Greeks 2 Assuaging Rage: Remorse, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the Classical World 17 David Konstan 3 Achilles, Psammenitus, and Antigone: Forgiveness in Homer and Beyond 31 Page duBois 4 All in the Family: Forgiveness and Reconciliation in New Comedy 48 Kathryn Gutzwiller III. The Territory Philosophically Considered 1 What Is Forgiveness? 3 Adam Morton II. Table of contents : Contributors page vii Preface by Charles L. ![]()
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