Does True Forgiveness Require Repentance ? It Seems Like the Answer is Yes -- So It's Not Unilateral

And Doug, what he does is his pen name is R. Douglas Guy of it.

He takes an approach where he defends that forgiveness is a virtue.

forgiveness is a virtue in the sense that we mean from like aristotle you know that the account of virtue moral virtue character trait that is uh part of a positive description of who you are your character And Doug also, in addition to arguing that forgiveness is a virtue, argues that it's a Christian virtue.

So I thought that it would be good for us to start where Doug ends.

And sometimes it's helpful to have a conversation.

This is a sec, you know, that starts at the end and then goes forward.

I've done that.

Why forgive? Page 234 in this volume.

And this is an edited volume and there's different selections.

So Dallas Willard blurbed it on the back.

Yeah.

Robert C. Roberts.

He's the philosophy of emotions guy.

Is he still working? I don't know.

He was at Baylor for a long time.

um we've also you know his co-editor michael austin we talked about his book god guns in america a few years ago so we did a few episodes on that book he's the co-editor here uh uh so austin wrote the book uh wrote with the chapter on compassion um There's a chapter on humility.

There's one on love.

There's one on courage.

There's one on hope, contentment, zeal, wisdom, open-mindedness.

Open-mindedness was written by Jason Baer, who was my former supervisor at Loyola Marymount University.

That's on the quiz.

And faith, Paul K. Moser wrote the one on faith.

And Doug, what he does is his pen name is R. Douglas Guy of it.

He takes an approach where he defends that forgiveness is a virtue.

forgiveness is a virtue in the sense that we mean from like aristotle you know that the account of virtue moral virtue character trait that is uh part of a positive description of who you are your character And Doug also, in addition to arguing that forgiveness is a virtue, argues that it's a Christian virtue.

So I thought that it would be good for us to start where Doug ends.

And sometimes it's helpful to have a conversation.

This is a sec, you know, that starts at the end and then goes forward.

I've done that.

Why forgive? Page 234 in this volume.

And this is an edited volume and there's different selections.

So Dallas Willard blurbed it on the back.

Yeah.

Robert C. Roberts.

He's the philosophy of emotions guy.

Is he still working? I don't know.

He was at Baylor for a long time.

um we've also you know his co-editor michael austin we talked about his book god guns in america a few years ago so we did a few episodes on that book he's the co-editor here uh uh so austin wrote the book uh wrote with the chapter on compassion um There's a chapter on humility.

There's one on love.

There's one on courage.

There's one on hope, contentment, zeal, wisdom, open-mindedness.

Open-mindedness was written by Jason Baer, who was my former supervisor at Loyola Marymount University.

That's on the quiz.

And faith, Paul K. Moser wrote the one on faith.