PREISPITIVANJE OPROSTA: KAKO OPROSTITI NEOPROSTIVO?
RETHINKING FORGIVENESS: HOW TO FORGIVE UNFORGIVEN

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the act of forgiveness and reconciliation illustrated by eventsand examples from the film Amish Grace (2010). The film is based on a true story regarding Amish school shooting that took place in October 2006, when five girls had beenkilled and five other girls had been injured in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. The Amishcommunity then made an incredible gesture to the family of Charlie Roberts, the perpetrator. Journalists, the entire society, and above all the Roberts family, were overwhelmedby the love, condolences and forgiveness of the Amish community. The film has receivednumerous awards. It is an inspiring, powerful and enlightening drama that shows thepower and importance of true, human forgiveness, as well as the difficulties and complexity of giving and/or receiving forgiveness. In the paper author described family relationships, journalistic scepticism regarding Amish forgiveness, discussions with a grief counsellor, difficulty accepting tragedies, and being asked how to forgive things that are unforgivable are described. This is followed by a section on the concept of Amish forgiveness, with numerous quotations from the Bible. The final part of the paper deals with thepossibilities of

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