How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Harold Kushner
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From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People comes an inspiring new bestseller that puts human feelings of guilt and inadequacy in perspective - and teaches us how we can learn to accept ourselves and others even when we and they are less than perfect. How Good Do We Have to Be? is for everyone who experiences that sense of guilt and disappointment. Harold Kushner, writing with his customary generosity and wisdom, shows us how human life is too complex for anyone to live it without making mistakes, and why we need not fear the loss of God's love when we are less than perfect. Harold Kushner begins by offering a radically new interpretation of the story of Adam and Eve, which he sees as a tale of Paradise Outgrown rather than Paradise Lost: eating from the Tree of Knowledge was not an act of disobedience, but a brave step forward toward becoming human, complete with the richness of work, sexuality and child-rearing, and a sense of our mortality. Drawing on modern literature, psychology, theology, and his own thirty years of experience as a congregational rabbi, Harold Kushner reveals how acceptance and forgiveness can change our relationships with the most important people in our lives and help us meet the bold and rewarding challenge of being human.
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- Title How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness
- Author Harold Kushner
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Back Bay Books, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-09-01
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780316519335 / 0316519332
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.2 x 5 x 0.6 in (18.29 x 12.70 x 1.52 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Theometrics: Secular
- Library of Congress subjects Good and evil, Guilt - Religious aspects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95025350
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.7
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