Political Forgiveness: A Contextual and Multidisciplinary Dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr
The recent protest in Hong Kong since summer 2019 makes political forgiveness an urgent public issue facing the Christian churches. Through a contextual and multidisciplinary dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), this study argues for a realistic understanding that political forgiveness is pos...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2020]
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Theology today
Year: 2020, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 243-254 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBM Asia NBE Anthropology NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Hong Kong
B Confucianism B Altruism B Reinhold Niebuhr B political forgiveness |
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| Summary: | The recent protest in Hong Kong since summer 2019 makes political forgiveness an urgent public issue facing the Christian churches. Through a contextual and multidisciplinary dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), this study argues for a realistic understanding that political forgiveness is possible as well as desirable, which should be based on a dialectical view of human nature, rather than a naïve and optimistic view of human compassion. This realistic understanding of political forgiveness is grounded on Niebuhr’s thought and relevance to the Hong Kong context. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040573620943256 |