{"id":882,"date":"2006-04-11T05:16:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/forgiveness-and-the-face-6.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T05:16:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T05:16:04","slug":"forgiveness-and-the-face-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/04\/forgiveness-and-the-face-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness and the Face 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early in chp 5 of The Faces of Forgiveness<\/em>, LeRon Shults states this: “believers are called to face one another in a way that manifests grace as they are faced by the gracious face of God” (169). And he sees forgiveness manifested in the three major relations: faith, love, and hope. For each section, he deals with similar themes: anxiety, the centrality of Jesus Christ, and the importance of the sacramental community. Here is the question to ask: Since forgiveness is pressed to the front by Jesus and the NT, how does forgiveness interact with faith, with love, and with hope?
\nFaith involves facing epistemic anxiety; love involves facing ethical anxiety; hope involves facing ontological anxiety.
\n“Christian forgiveness is not ignorant — it knows, but still offers grace” (175). This is crucial; forgiveness does not pretend something wrong is not wrong; it knows something wrong is wrong; and it chooses another way. It believes in an alternative reality of grace that can redemptively re-create communities and relations.
\nFaith involves finding our personal identity in Christ; love means dying to sin with Jesus Christ; hope involves being conformed to the image of Christ.
\nPersonal identity is framed in relation with others (Sandage dealt with this theme, too). Here’s a great observation by Shults: “If personal identity is found as one is known by a truly infinite Other<\/em>, the self has space and time to become itself without losing its finite historical particularity” (179).
\nFaith involves knowing in sacramental community; love involves acting in baptized community; and hope involves “being” in eucharistic community.
\n“… the sacramental community is a dynamic nexus of concrete relations; the church is constituted by the relational presence of the Spirit of Christ in which it coheres and to which it adheres” (183).
\nNotice this comment: “Perhaps the Lord’s Supper is not about substance<\/em>-iation at all, but about the substantive transformation of broken relations into new beautiful patters of living that share in community-healing reality of divine grace” (217).
\nMuch to be said all around, but this is a fine book that explores “face” and the theme of forgiveness in light both of social-science research and Bible\/theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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