Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lai, Pan-chiu

Titel

Political Forgiveness: A Contextual and Multidisciplinary Dialogue with Reinhold Niebuhr

Ist Teil von

• Theology today (Ephrata, Pa.), 2020-10, Vol.77 (3), p.243-254

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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.