Foreword

When approaching forgiveness we all face a certain dilemma. Forgiveness simultaneously is central across faith traditions and yet at times has been taught as obligation bordering on manipulation. With wisdom won from personal experience and years of engaged conflict transformation, Larry Dunn unravels the promise and challenge of forgiveness much as in the fable of the blind folk touching and understanding the many sides of the elephant. This book helps generate a wonderful encounter. The journey we follows takes us into both theological understanding and praxis, attending respectfully to the complexity of forgiveness, to a wonderfully multi-dimensional act of grace.

The title – Discovering Forgiveness – provides the very platform that supports the flow of the conversation. Discover in Latin suggests gaining sight about that which is unknown, unveiling little by little something that has been shrouded…