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How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy
出版Wiley + ORM, 2010-03-11
主題Religion / Christianity / AmishReligion / Christian Theology / EthicsReligion / Christian Living / Inspirational
ISBN04708738179780470873816
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7TmGEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋“This intelligent, compassionate and hopeful book” examines an Amish community’s extraordinary response to a horrifying act of violence (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
 
On October 2, 2006, a gunman named Charles Roberts entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He took ten schoolgirls hostage, killing five and critically wounding the others before taking his own life. To explain his motivation, he told the children, “I’m angry at God for taking my little daughter.”
 
By the following morning, as television crews swarmed the village, the Amish parents were already prepared to offer forgiveness. Soon, this extraordinary act of grace became a bigger story than the terrible crime that preceded it. Amish Grace explores the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly.

The authors examines the importance of forgiveness among cloistered communal societies and ask why this act of forgiveness became news among secular society. With insight and compassion, the authors contemplate how the Amish community’s witness could prove useful to the rest of us.