Kelly Corrigan & Miroslav Volf / Experts at Means, Amateurs at Ends: Talking About Success & Flourishing at College
For the Life of the World / Yale Center for Faith & Culture
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The Importance of Forgiveness
When you think about Christianity and what happens is when you fail, are you thinking of like breaking the 10 commandments or going to hell? Like those kinds of ideas? No, I'm thinking Jesus is much more stringent than that. Love your neighbor as yourself. That's your measure. And in a sense, we are always already failing in the Christian tradition. Though affirmed, or goodness is affirmed, at the same time, we're always identified as the ones who have failed. So how do you hold these two things together? There's something like forgiveness, which we have done wrong. It's possible for that not to be held against us. But nonetheless, that takes away from the pressure
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