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The Power of Forgiveness
by FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Actors: Elie Weisel, Thich Nhat Hanh, Thomas Moore
To forgive somone can be simple. But this simple act can have powerul consequences - and may lead to a personal and spiritual transformation. Recently, the study of forgiveness has come into its own.
Researchers are examining the psychological and physical effects of forgiveness under an amazingly wide variety of conditions, ranging from petty insults to sexual assault to 9/11. Clinicians now help guide people to forgive transgressions and get on with their lives. From Ground Zero to Northern Ireland to the Amish countryside, THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS explores this important concept, and reveals how forgiveness can transform your life.
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| Super basis for discussion |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I can't believe I didn't review this before. This was really useful for our forgiveness study group. One segment at a time, we discussed the immediate and far-reaching implications. We were a group of six, the "forgiveness team" resulting from a seven-week study I had led at Shepherd of the Hill Presbyterian Church in Chaska, MN. For that study we had used Wilma Derksen's little (and very effective) Bible-based study guide. We plan to use this DVD as the core of a one-day forgiveness workshop sometime in the Spring. Each segment is powerful in demonstrating one of the many facets of forgiveness. From my point of view, this DVD has the advantage of not being Bible-based and useful, therefore, for a much broader audience.
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| The Beginning of a Dialogue |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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The film is great as an overview. It is not nor should it be an in-depth or comprehensive study of forgiveness. Its sets the stage for further discussion and I plan to use it as such. This should just be the beginning of worthwhile discussions on what forgiveness is, how do we accomplish the act and how can it be applied to individuals and communities.
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| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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very disappointed in content....expected it to be about the Amish, but was about a lot of different tragedies and tended to ramble and not go into any depth with any of the subjects...very impersonal for what I was expecting....wouldn't recommend
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| Elie Wiesel has never forgiven Germans and hates Palestinians |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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It is very unfortunate that this worthy project has been marred by Elie Wiesel, a follower of the revenge-filled Talmud who has never acknowledged his relationship with the Irgun terrorists who massacred the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin or decried the slaughter in Deir Yassin in any way. Of the Germans, Wiesel wrote the terrible words (which he has never recanted): "Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate - healthy, virile hate - for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German." (Wiesel, "Legends of Our Time" [1968]). How on earth the producers of this DVD were so ignorant of Wiesel's record as to hoax their own forgiveness project with his presence is beyond fathoming.
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| THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS!! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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What does it mean to forgive someone? How do you go about forgiving? Does it mean that we forgo justice? Is forgiving simply a spiritual experience between an individual and God or does it play out on many different levels? These and other questions are addressed in this look at forgiveness by filmmaker Martin Doblmeier (Bonhoeffer). It looks at real life examples of forgiveness such as the Amish in the wake of the killing of five Amish schoolgirls that ripped their community. It shows the speech Elie Weisel made to the German Bundestadt challenging them to ask forgiveness of the Jewish people and then two months later, the speech made to the Israeli Knesset by the President of Germany asking forgiveness on behalf of Germany. It looks at forgiveness on many different levels including the physical level and how forgiveness (or lack of it) affects us physically and shows examples of forgiveness being taught in elementary schools as well as being offered in colleges. It shows three women who lost loved ones in 9/11 who travel to Lebanon to experience the Garden of Forgiveness established by the Lebanese and wonder why there is so much opposition to establishing a Garden of Forgiveness on the WTC site. While many might want to limit forgiveness to a theological discussion (and it certainly is a major if not THE major theological doctrine), this film shows the power of forgiveness beyond just the theological implications and how our world could be different if forgiveness were taken seriously and practiced by everyone. At the very least, this should be a wonderful conversation starter for those serious about studying forgiveness. Think of the political ramifications if candidates running for office would stand up and ask forgiveness of their opponents when they say something in error or intentionally malign them or if corporate leaders would ask forgiveness of shareholders for the mistakes they made in the name of corporate profits and greed. Perhaps, like most things, it works best if it starts from the individual and community level and works upward. That means it starts with you and me. [...]
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