Book contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Why Forgive?
2. Unforgiveness, Justice and Forgiveness
3. The Christian Foundation of Forgiving
4. R: Recall the Hurt
5. E: Empathize
6. A: Altruistic Gift of Forgiveness
7. C: Commit Publicly to Forgive
8. H. Hold onto Forgiveness
9. Decisions
10. Discussion
11. Detoxification
12. Devotion
Notes
Subject Index
Scripture Index
Everett L. Worthington Jr.
Everett L. Worthington Jr. (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is professor of psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and former executive director of the Templeton Foundation's A Campaign for Forgiveness Research.
Worthington has studied forgiveness since the 1980s and has published more than two hundred articles and papers on forgiveness, marriage and family, psychotherapy and virtue in a wide variety of journals and magazines. He was the founding editor of and sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals. He has appeared on CNN and and been featured in award-winning documentary movies on forgiveness such as and He is the author of seventeen books including and