Forgiveness after Trauma: A Path to Find Healing and Empowerment

Susannah Griffith's book "Forgiveness after Trauma" explores the biblical call to forgive, offering healing and restorative perspectives that center survivors of abuse and aid their healing. It challenges traditional views of forgiveness and empowers those harmed by abuses of power and justice in religious institutions.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 21 May 2024
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group

Susannah Griffith, a Christian minister, biblical scholar, and survivor of abuse, has written a book titled "Forgiveness after Trauma" to explore the biblical call to forgive. She helps readers understand this command in ways that are healing and restorative, framing it within broader concerns around lament, anger, accountability, release and rebirth, and reconciliation. Griffith's approach to forgiveness is trauma-informed, which takes seriously God's forgiveness of sinners while centering survivors of abuse and aiding their healing. This view empowers those who have been harmed in other ways by abuses of power and justice in religious institutions. Readers will resonate with Griffith's astute biblical analysis and personal reflection, which point to God's love, which never includes abuse and strives for justice for the vulnerable.

Weight: 222g
Dimension: 140 x 215 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781587435973