a ISBN 0-19-509105-1

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number BR115.P7

b Item number S514 1995

a Dewey Classification 172

a Personal name Shriver, Donald W.

a Title An ethic for enemies :

b Remainder of title forgiveness in politics /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Donald W. Shriver, Jr.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1995.

a Extent xi, 284 p. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-276) and indexes.

a Formatted contents note A Complex and Multi-Dimensional Concept: Some Definitions -- 1. Revenge, the End of Politics; and Justice, the Beginning. Aeschylus: The Taming of Revenge by Institutions of Justice. Thucydides: The Triumph Fury in War. Cain, Joseph and Their Kin: A Saga of Restorative Justice. "Who Can Forgive Sins but God Alone?" Interlude: Reflections on Revenge, Justice, and Forgiveness -- 2. Forgiveness in Politics in Christian Tradition. Jesus - The Discoverer" of Social Forgiveness? The Political Context of Jesus' Ministry. Forgiveness as Community Building in the New Testament. Did Christians Believe that Forgiveness Belonged in the Public Sphere? Appearances and Disappearances of Forgiveness in the "Christian" Political Order. The Crisis for All Formulations of Forgiveness: The Enlightenment Perspective -- 3. Political Ethics as Moral Memory. The Politics of Death and Life. Remembering History Morally. Can Nations Remember, Repent, and Forgive? -- 4. Vengeance and Forbearance: Germans and Americans. Germans and Americans: 1914-45. Democracy at War: A Note on "Just War" Ethics, 1941-45. Vengeance versus Truth, Reparation versus Restoration, 1945-60. The United States and Germany: Forty Years after World War II. Postscript: 1995 and Beyond -- 5. Enmity and Empathy: Japan and the United States. Remembering the Pacific War. Remembering Japanese Americans -- 6. Justice and Forgiveness: The Long Road to Equal Citizenship for African Americans. The Oldest American Civic Injustice. An Early Civil Rights Movement: 1865. Wholly Belonging: The Civil Rights Movement, 1955-68. Black Power and Political Forgiveness? "That Old and Still Unpaid Debt," -- 7. Whither Forgiveness in American Politics? The Place of Apology. Restitution and Domestic Tranquillity. Forgiveness Too Soon, Too Late. Pluralism: Our Coming National Trial by Diversity.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Christianity and politics.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Forgiveness

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Civil society.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Political ethics.