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List of Illustrations | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Narratives of a Modern Dilemma | 1 |
The Story of Myra Hindley | 1 | |
The Story of Mary Bell | 10 | |
The Story of James Bulger | 12 | |
The Story of Sarah Payne | 15 | |
2 | Responses to Sin and Forgiveness in Art and Literature | 21 |
Rembrandt and the Parable of the Prodigal Son | 21 | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter | 24 | |
Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower | 32 | |
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale | 36 | |
Bernhard Schlink's The Reader | 38 | |
Alice Walker's 'Goodnight, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning' | 42 | |
3 | The Move to a Contemporary View of Sin | 48 |
The Fractured Meta-narrative of Christianity in Britain | 48 | |
The Impact of Secular Social Policies on Perceptions of Sin | 52 | |
The Emergence of the Concept of Structural Sin | 56 | |
Sins Identified by Liberation Theology | 62 | |
Sins Identified by Feminist Theology | 63 | |
4 | Contemporary Perspectives on Forgiveness | 71 |
A New Order of Social Values | 71 | |
A New Age Community | 74 | |
Freud and the New Therapies | 82 | |
Self-help Books | 85 | |
Institutes of Forgiveness | 86 | |
5 | The Persistence and Intensification of Structural Sin | 94 |
Our New Confusion | 94 | |
Poverty | 96 | |
Slavery | 100 | |
Violence and War | 105 | |
6 | How Do We Live Together?: Final Conclusions | 119 |
The Transition to New Paradigms | 119 | |
What Secularization Has Offered | 123 | |
Retributive or Restorative Justice? | 126 | |
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 130 | |
The Power of Memory: Do We Forgive and Forget? | 132 | |
Looking to the Future | 135 | |
Postscript | 139 | |
Bibliography | 142 | |
Index | 159 |
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