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• Title : Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
• Author : Donald W. Shriver
• Rating : 4.80 (297 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-4-29
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 368 Pages
• Asin : 0195378830
• Language : English

argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in our nation's past. The call for collective repentance presents many challenges: What can it mean to morally master a past whose victims are dead and whose sufferings cannot be alleviated? What are the measures that lend substance to language and action expressing repentance? What

argues that we must acknowledge and repent of the morally negative events in our nation's past. The call for collective repentance presents many challenges: What can it mean to morally master a past whose victims are dead and whose sufferings cannot be alleviated? What are the measures that lend substance to language and action expressing repentance? What symbolic and tangible acts produce credible turns away from past wrongs? What are the dynamics-psychological, social, and political-whereby we can safely consign an evil to the past? How can public life witness to corporate crimes of the past in such a way that descendents of victims can be confident that they will never be repeated? In his provocative answers to these questions Shriver creates a compelling new vision of the collective repentance and apology that must precede real progress in relations between the races in this country.. Religious people and religious organizations have an important role to play in this process. The failure to do so skews the relations of many Americans to one another, breeds ongoing hostility, and damages the health of our society. Yet our civic identity today largely rests on denials, forgetfulness, and

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Dodge Professor of Applied Christianity, Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary. He is the author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics (O.U.P., 1995).

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He is a long-distance runner in the struggle for freedom and Christian love."--Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. His scope of concern breaks out of narrow nationalist preoccupation to international dimension of critique and repentance. Citizens of every country must come to lover their own country enokught to remember its misdeed! Honest Patriots is an urgently timely, great book." --Theology Today"As long as there are such sensitive and profoundly truthful commentators as Donald Shriver around speaking to American power, there is always hope." --Restorative Justice"A passionate but gentle teaching on personal, pol