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Forgiveness is an everyday phenomena, and one which might be said to be a part of the fabric of most people’s interpersonal lives. Equally, forgiveness often emerges as something controversial and puzzling in the extreme cases: the family of a murder victim who proclaim forgiveness for the perpetrator; the tabloid headlines that pronounce some crimes to be unforgivable. And forgiveness is also philosophically intriguing. It could easily seem that forgiveness stands opposed to justice: it seems that justice is about giving what is deserved, but when we forgive, we give what is not deserved. Is this right? What are we doing if we forgive? Or, what do we receive from others if we are forgiven?
This course introduces a few of the issues that emerge in consideration of the meaning and value of forgiveness, and asks us to think carefully about the intuitions we have in this area.
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Stuart is the Theology Lead at LJC. He graduated with a degree in Literature and Theology from the University of Hull in 2000. From 2003-9 he studied Philosophical Theology part-time at the University of Nottingham, whilst continuing to work in the third sector with vulnerably-housed or homeless people, and young asylum seekers (as well as pulling pints in a pub). He was Lecturer at York St John University for almost a decade, before moving to London Jesuit Centre in 2021. He now lives in South East London, and spends as much time as he can in the woods.
