The Practice of Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World - Dr. Matthew Ichihashi Potts

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00:00 Understanding a Christian conception of forgiveness
01:18 When forgiveness causes emotional distress
02:55 What we get wrong about forgiveness
05:00 Forgiveness is often understood as the opposite of anger.
06:32 Forgiveness is not an emotion. It's an action.
07:05 Forgiveness is not reconciliation.
09:24 When forgiveness causes shame for victims of abuse or trauma
11:15 Anger is not a sin
12:37 How to understand forgiveness: loving your enemy
15:58 Acknowledging that God loves my enemy
17:11 Forgiveness is an alternative to systems of justice that
demand retaliation
18:41 An offense doesn't require offense in return.
19:42 Forgiveness is a not retaliatory response to wrong doing.
20:13 How does an oppressed person have a posture of forgiveness toward systems that continue to hurt them?
22:51 Charleston church attack and stories of forgiveness
25:32 Forgiveness as a form of mourning.
29:28 How to forgive
31:40 Self-forgiveness
33:19 Anti-Nazi theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and plot to kill Hitler

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Will the book be translated to Serbian?