1. Introduction: Mapping the Forgiveness Territory; 2. "Ethical Bungee Jumping": Repentance, Repair, and Forgiveness in the "Seventy Times Seven" Instructions and the Case of Victim-Offender Mediation; 3. Community Cohesion or a Hegemony of Harmony? Forgiveness in the Lord's Prayer and Post-Apartheid South Africa; 4. Passionate Prayer or Pastoral Pressure? Forgiveness in Luke 23:34a and the Pastoral Care of Victims of Domestic Violence; Conclusion: The Future of Forgiveness; Bibliography.
Maria Mayo earned her doctorate in history and critical theories of religion at Vanderbilt University. She is coeditor of several volumes of The Feminist Companion to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature series. Mayo is currently the communications coordinator for the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
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