Forgiveness: Key to the Creative Life
Its Power and Its Practice—Lessons from Brain Studies, Scripture, and Experience.
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Forgiveness: Key to the Creative Life, begins with a study of the brain and identified shame, memory, and empathy as fields within the brain. Forgiveness is a process that makes use of these fields to deal with hurts and insults. The process of forgiveness begins with forgiving oneself. Examples of how this works are taken from reactions to the Kennedy assisnation, individual experiences of people imprisoned under the Red Guard in China, the Nazis is Germany, and individual counseling situations. The writing includes forgiveness in the Bible and the application of forgiveness in moments such as worship and prayer.
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Forgiveness: Key to the Creative Life begins with new information on how the brain operates in the process of forgivness. The book begins with the relation between field theory as it relates to understanding the brain. The book then develops a theory of forgiveness as a process demonstrated in both scripture and case studies. From a look at the Kennedy assasination, the Columbine and Amish school shootings, and individual experiences, the book demonstates the process of forgiveness as leading to creativity rather than a reactive life..
About the Author
Jim Emerson began thinking about forgiveness as college student when he tried to make sense out of the split between his father and mother. After he became an ordained pastor, Jim earned an interdisciplinary PhD at the University of Chicago that include the Divinity School, the medical school, and the counseling center of the University. He has written on the subject of divorce and remarriage, suffering as a ministry, and creative rather than reactive living. Jim has served as a pastor, teacher, and administrator in the fiels of faith and social service.