Mona Gustafson Affinito
Auteur van When to Forgive
Werken van Mona Gustafson Affinito
Forgiving One Page At A Time: The Diary of Your Journey to Restoration and Confidence (2007) 1 exemplaar
Adler Café: Forgiveness (DVD) 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
Before forgiving : cautionary views of forgiveness in psychotherapy (2002) — Medewerker, sommige edities — 8 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Beroepen
- professor
psychotherapist - Organisaties
- Southern Connecticut State University
Albertus Magnus College
Eden Prairie Psychological Resources
Alfred Adler Graduate School - Korte biografie
- Mona Gustafson Affinito, PhD., L.P., emeritus professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University, has given frequent workshops on "forgiveness" and taught courses on morality in psychotherapy and on forgiveness at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. In 1995, she moved from Connecticut to Minnesota, leaving behind an active seventeen-year private psychotherapy practice. In Minnesota she has served as teaching and supervising faculty at Eden Prairie Psychological Resources and is a member of the faculty at the Alfred Adler Graduate School, while maintaining a small private practice. [from Before Forgiving (2002)]
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Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 4
- Ook door
- 1
- Leden
- 14
- Populariteit
- #739,559
- Waardering
- 4.5
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 4
The modern-fictional part of this telling is the best part and takes up more than half the book.We don’t get to the losses and the friends, and the whirlwind and the recovery, until Chapter 11 of 14, when we’ve read some three-quarters of the pages, and I would have been happy to see it stop a little before that. I’m delighted with the way Affinito has made a fully realized character of the wife who comes into the biblical story in just a couple of comments that have opened her to harsh criticism in traditional interpretations.
I’m also fascinated with Affinito’s historical imagination that places the story in a culture existing alongside the biblical Hebrews, in Edom, the land of Esau, twin brother to Jacob/Israel. As she explains in an “addendum” at the end of the book, her research on the Edomites provides the seminomadic lifestyle of Job and his wife, dwelling in complex tents near the land grazed by their herds for three seasons, and settled in cave houses at the edge of the city in winter. Affinito has carried this research through and brought it to life.
Affinito also provides an intriguing background to the canonical story in her notion of the Edomites having “lost” the faith of Esau’s grandfather Abraham, with Job’s story tracing the ordeal of regaining it. But again, because it’s explained only in the addendum, it isn’t available to help readers understand the narrative.
What adds importance to the novel, however, is Affinito’s handling of her Dara’s devotion to the goddess Astarte, a practice that has been well studied, especially by feminist Bible scholars. Affinito allows us to see it in action, both in the immature faith that requires Dara to carry her representation of Astarte with her and keep it nearby, and in the development of her understanding that the statue is not the divinity and she needn’t choose between male and female gods. This is the revelatory point on which I wish Affinito had been content to end. The rest we can read in the canonical telling and be just as happy.
Note: The author/publisher provided a copy of the book to me for this review; no other consideration was given.… (meer)