On Repentance and Repair Repair and Amends in an Unapologetic World [Audiobook] [#503577]

On Repentance and Repair: Repair and Amends in an Unapologetic World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BF7S2N6T | 2022 | 9 hours and 21 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 510 MB
Author: Danya Ruttenberg
Narrator: Sara Sheckells
A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm-from personal transgressions to our culture's most painful and unresolved issues. American culture focuses on letting go of grudges and redemption narratives instead of the perpetrator's obligations or recompense for harmed parties. As survivor communities have pointed out, these emphases have too often only caused more harm. But Danya Ruttenberg knew there was a better model, rooted in the work of the medieval philosopher Maimonides. For Maimonides, upon whose work Ruttenberg elaborates, forgiveness is much less important than the repair work to which the person who caused harm is obligated. The word traditionally translated as repentance really means something more like return, and in this book, returning is a restoration, as much as is possible, to the victim, and, for the perpetrator of harm, a coming back, in humility and intentionality, to behaving as the person we might like to believe we are.