Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy

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Release Year
2007
ISBN
9780787997618
Book Title
Amish Grace : How Forgiveness Transcended a Tragedy
Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Item Length
9.1 in
Publication Year
2007
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver-Zercher, Donald B. Kraybill
Genre
Religion
Topic
Christianity / Amish, Christian Theology / General, History
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Width
6.4 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages
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Publisher
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-10
0787997617
ISBN-13
9780787997618
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103072196

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Book Title
Amish Grace : How Forgiveness Transcended a Tragedy
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Christianity / Amish, Christian Theology / General, History
Genre
Religion
Author
Steven M. Nolt, David L. Weaver-Zercher, Donald B. Kraybill
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.4 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.4 in

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Trade
LCCN
2007-019071
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
364.152/30974815
Table Of Content
Preface.PART ONE.Chapter 1: The Nickel Mines Amish.Chapter 2: The Shooting.Chapter 3: The Aftermath.Chapter 4: The Surprise.Chapter 5: The Reactions.PART TWO.Chapter 6: The Habit of Forgiveness.Chapter 7: The Roots of Forgiveness.Chapter 8: The Spirituality of Forgiveness.Chapter 9: The Practice of ForgivenessPART THREE.Chapter 10: Forgiveness at Nickel Mines.Chapter 11: What About Shunning?Chapter 12: Grief, Providence, and Justice.Chapter 13: Amish Grace and the Rest of Us.Afterword.Acknowledgments.Appendix: The Amish of North America.Endnotes.Resources for Further reading.The Authors.Index.
Synopsis
On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition that he brought for the task. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old, begged Roberts to "shoot me first and let the little ones go." Refusing her offer, he opened fire on all of them, killing five and leaving the others critically wounded. He then shot himself as police stormed the building. His motivation? "I'm angry at God for taking my little daughter," he told the children before the massacre. The story captured the attention of broadcast and print media in the United States and around the world. By Tuesday morning some fifty television crews had clogged the small village of Nickel Mines, staying for five days until the killer and the killed were buried. The blood was barely dry on the schoolhouse floor when Amish parents brought words of forgiveness to the family of the one who had slain their children. The outside world was incredulous that such forgiveness could be offered so quickly for such a heinous crime. Of the hundreds of media queries that the authors received about the shooting, questions about forgiveness rose to the top. Forgiveness, in fact, eclipsed the tragic story, trumping the violence and arresting the world's attention. Within a week of the murders, Amish forgiveness was a central theme in more than 2,400 news stories around the world. The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, NBC Nightly News, CBS Morning News, Larry King Live, Fox News, Oprah, and dozens of other media outlets heralded the forgiving Amish. From the Khaleej Times (United Arab Emirates) to Australian television, international media were opining on Amish forgiveness. Three weeks after the shooting, "Amish forgiveness" had appeared in 2,900 news stories worldwide and on 534,000 web sites. Fresh from the funerals where they had buried their own children, grieving Amish families accounted for half of the seventy-five people who attended the killer's burial. Roberts' widow was deeply moved by their presence as Amish families greeted her and her three children. The forgiveness went beyond talk and graveside presence: the Amish also supported a fund for the shooter's family. AMISH GRACE explores the many questions this story raises about the religious beliefs and habits that led the Amish to forgive so quickly. It looks at the ties between forgiveness and membership in a cloistered communal society and ask if Amish practices parallel or diverge from other religious and secular notions of forgiveness. It will also address the matter of why forgiveness became news. "All the religions teach it," mused an observer, "but no one does it like the Amish." Regardless of the cultural seedbed that nourished this story, the surprising act of Amish forgiveness begs for a deeper exploration. How could the Amish do this? What did this act mean to them? And how might their witness prove useful to the rest of us?, On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school, killing and wounding ten young girls. Within days, the Amish community expressed their forgiveness of the man who had done this. This book explores the religious beliefs and habits that allowed the Amish to forgive so quickly.
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BT795.K73 2007

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    May 07, 2020

    Forgiving as an act of trust in God.

    Incredible story about putting faith into action and the power of true forgiveness.

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