How Good Do We Have to Be? A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness - Softcover

Kushner, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316519332 ISBN 13: 9780316519335

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 1997

Synopsis

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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"If there were a quick fix for our trouble globe, it would be the profoundly tolerant message, teeming with humanity, at the heart of this book."
-Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul

From the author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, comes an inspiring new bestseller that puts human feelings of guilt ad inadequacy in perspective - and teaches us how we can learn to accept out selves and others even when we are less than perfect.

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 as well as a sense of our mortality.

Drawing on modern literature, psychology, theology, and his won thirty years of experience

About the Author:

Harold Kushner's pervious books include To Life!, Who Needs God, When Children Ask  About God, When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough, and When Bad Things Happen to Good People.  He lives in the Boston suburb of Natick, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0316519332
• ISBN 13: 9780316519335
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192