"Forgiveness can never be forced and obligated, but is always available and tends to rise with unexpected energy and power to shift human relationships toward restoration and healing."
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…
Lederach, John Paul. “Foreword.” In Discovering Forgiveness: Pathways Through Injury, Apology, and Healing, by Larry A. Dunn, Vol. 2. Theological Postings Series. Telford, Pennsylvania: Cascadia Publishing House, 2014.
Reproduced by permission of Cascadia Publishing House.
An abridged version of the book, The Little Book of Conflict Transformation.
An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.