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How good do we have to Be? : A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness / Harold S. Kushner

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Little Brown and Company, c1996.Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 181 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0316519332 (pb)
  • 0316507415 (hc)
  • 9780316507417
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.7 22 KUS
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .K87 1996
  • BJ1401 .K87 1996
Contents:
God loves you anyway -- What really happened in the Garden of Eden? -- I thought I had to be perfect -- Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters -- Choose happiness over righteousness -- Cain and Abel: is there enough love to go around? -- Life after Eden -- How good do we have to be?
Summary: The author offers a message about God's forgiveness and constancy, beginning with a reinterpretation of the biblical story of Adam and Eve, suggesting that it is not an account of people being punished for one mistake, but rather an example of people becoming fully aware of their humanity
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Books Bishop Barham University College Library Open Access / General collection 296.7 KUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 11756BBUC

God loves you anyway -- What really happened in the Garden of Eden? -- I thought I had to be perfect -- Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters -- Choose happiness over righteousness -- Cain and Abel: is there enough love to go around? -- Life after Eden -- How good do we have to be?

The author offers a message about God's forgiveness and constancy, beginning with a reinterpretation of the biblical story of Adam and Eve, suggesting that it is not an account of people being punished for one mistake, but rather an example of people becoming fully aware of their humanity

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