Christian Forgiveness: A New Understanding
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Why does Jesus place forgiveness as the foundation both of the obedient Christian spirit and of God’s plan for the reconciliation of humanity? In this groundbreaking study, Donald Algeo reveals the answer to both of these questions.
Beginning with an analysis of forgiveness in general, Algeo shows how Christian forgiveness in particular—forgiveness offered by Christians—represents an authority, a privilege, and a responsibility uniquely conferred upon his followers by Christ himself, and how its exercise by those followers is the singular method ordained by God for creating a heavenly kingdom on earth.
Written in an engaging style accessible to any and all who are interested in the deep things of God, Christian Forgiveness offers a refreshing and thought-provoking new understanding of one of the central pillars of Christian faith.
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Donald Algeo begins his inquiry into forgiveness with the financial meaning of the act, which informs its divine significance. To forgive is to take on the debt that is being forgiven. Thus, forgiving burdens the one who forgives. Addressing the subject with clear thinking, humble meditation, and the drive to communicate, Algeo challenges his readers to reconceive what they might think they knew about forgiveness. The end, as he always reminds us, is practice.
——Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, City University of New York
From a literary and theological standpoint, Don Algeo’s Christian Forgiveness: A New Understanding is a fascinating and methodically constructed argument. He dismantles the common, modern view of forgiveness as a primarily therapeutic tool for one’s own emotional wellbeing and replaces it with a clear and robust theological understanding. It’s theologically sound, while remaining easy to read. This contribution is a brilliant example of disciplined theological reasoning we rarely see from the mainline tradition.
——Lance W. Haverkamp, Executive Minister, Christian Universalist Association
- Title: Christian Forgiveness: A New Understanding
- Author: Donald Ross Algeo
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2026
- Logos Release Date: 2026
- Pages: 106
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9798385275151, 9798385275144, 9798385275137
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385275151
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2026-04-17T21:50:00Z