No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
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No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World  -     By: Michael Henderson

No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World

Baylor University Press / 2009 / Paperback

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Title: No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World
By: Michael Henderson
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 220
Vendor: Baylor University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 1602581401
ISBN-13: 9781602581401
Stock No: WW581401

Publisher's Description

Offering dramatic evidence of the transformative power of forgiveness, No Enemy to Conquer shares the stories of people of diverse faiths and cultures who, despite all odds, found the courage to reconcile with their enemies. Gathering the voices of Desmond Tutu, Benazir Bhutto, Rajmohan Gandhi, Jonathan Sacks, the Dalai Lama, and others, Henderson's masterful anthology is an inspiring step toward a geopolitics of mercy.

Author Bio

Michael Henderson is an English journalist. The author of nine books, his latest titles include, See You After the Duration (2004) and Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of Hate (2002).

Publisher's Weekly

Henderson (From India with Hope), whose Irish Protestant family sought reconciliation with their Catholic compatriots, may be just the sort of eloquent messenger the world needs to understand the utility and not just the symbolic value of forgiveness. Starting with the Dalai Lama’s foreword—a paean to the power of redemption—this book is a blissful read and a persuasive argument for forgiveness as a practical tool for global survival. As the author demonstrates in a discussion of (the few) American individuals and institutions that have made formal apologies for the African slave trade, history cannot be redeemed with an apology, but an apology can create a new starting point for history. Most instructive, however, are the stories of people, from Chechnya to Pennsylvania Amish country, who have suffered unspeakable acts at the hands of enemies and staunchly refuse to be consumed by victimhood. Henderson shows the real muscle behind forgiveness, avoiding preciousness and sentimentality. He writes, “Forgiveness has an image problem”—with this latest effort, perhaps no more. (Feb.) Copyright 2008 Reed Business Information.

Editorial Reviews

"[These narratives] offer qualitative evidence that a mixture of courage and humility can infuse dialogic encounters with hope that persons of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds can forgive and reconcile rather than perpetuateviolence."

-- Religious Studies Review (2011, 37:3)

Henderson's style in this richly personal book is fluent, accessible and immensely readable. It does not hide from the suffering of the world but movingly claims that healing as possible.

-- Interreligious Insight

Henderson's book leads us to ask: What will allow us to see our enemies in a new light that will make forgiveness possible?... From Henderson we know that there are some common points along the journey.

-- Tikkun

A fascinating examination of forgiveness in an unforgiving world.

-- The Huffington Post

No Enemy to Conquer offers a passionate, well-researched defense of the virtue of forgiveness and its place in healing hate and conflict while establishing peace and justice at a grassroots level all over the world.

-- Chicago Crescent

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