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Summary: Too many words, not enough room to write
Review: For a workbook, I feel this book was just to wordy. It is well organized, but I think it would have worked better as a book about forgiveness and then a workbook with the questions.Forgiveness is a Choice would be my choice if you are looking for a book to work through forgiving someone.
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Summary: Too Much Reference to God and Christ... Loses Credibility
Review: There are some good psychological explanations of the necessary steps towards forgiveness. However, I found the book to have too much reference to God; thereby, losing all scholarly credibility. The authors hypothesize, that one of the reasons a person should forgive is because: "Lest you conclude that we endorse not forgiving, let us strongly state that we believe forgiveness is right because it is part of the godly life taught and lived by Christ." page 14 What if the reader (such as myself) is NOT a Christian. Then if one does not believe in God or Christ, this line of reasoning is worthless and not convincing to the reader. The book is filled with reference to God and Christ and the Bible; thereby, negating any objective clinical scholarly findings they may pose in this book. This book is a terrible disappointment
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Summary: Interesting definitions of "scholarship" and "credible"...
Review: This is a review of a review... >...too much reference to God; thereby, losing all scholarly credibility< I see, so any Thiestic based scholarship is, therefore, uncredible? I suppose we shall have to discard the great body of world (not just Western European - WORLD) thought. >...one of the reasons a person should forgive is because: "Lest you conclude that we endorse not forgiving, let us strongly state that we believe forgiveness is right because it is part of the godly life taught and lived by Christ." page 14< Is it a secret to ANYONE that Minirith-Meyers is a Christian practice? I would think that this is common knowledge by now. The tone of the reviewer is that they are well schooled and knowledgeable however this "little" fact somehow eluded them. Interesting, when one is questioning another's "credibility". >What if the reader (such as myself) is NOT a Christian. Then if one does not believe in God or Christ, this line of reasoning is worthless and not convincing to the reader< Glad to see that you're so open minded! Apparently in the reviewer's mind any thing that is not within the reviwer narrow non-Thiestic secularist world-view is not worth considering. Now that's what I call great scholarship! (not!) >The book is filled with reference to God and Christ and the Bible; thereby, negating any objective clinical scholarly findings they may pose in this book< I rest my case. The reviewer would do well to evaluate their narrow and limited enlightenment based modernist world-view. This form of "scholarship" has been tried and proven inadequete for the answers that man has sought since time eternal. I DO wonder what cave or tower (ivory no doubt in any case) this reviewer has been hiding in. He should try joining us here in the 21st century sometime!
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