The difficulties of forgiving—or why not to reconcile with the past?

Reflections on an important work about forgiveness and reconciliation

Thomas Brudholm, Resentment’s Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive, foreword by Jeffrie G. Murphy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).

discussion note by Jan-Olav Henriksen

Norwegian School of Theology

Published July 26, 2008