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Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

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Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and David L. Weaver-Zercher


Jossey-Bass / John Wiley & Sons
HB 9780787997618
$24.95

September 2007

Amish Grace explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It looks at the ties between forgiveness and membership in a cloistered communal society and asks if Amish practices parallel or diverge from other religious and secular notions of forgiveness. It will also address the matter of why forgiveness became news. "All the religions teach it," mused an observer, "but no one does it like the Amish." Regardless of the cultural seedbed that nourished this story, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for a deeper exploration. How could the Amish do this? What did this act mean to them? And how might their witness prove useful to the rest of us?

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