Abstract
Abstract Does valorizing ‘love’s forgiveness’ amount to prioritizing agapic love over justice? Or is there some other picture, according to which forgiveness manages to combine love and justice? This chapter, addresses this question through a discussion of Nicholas Wolterstorff’s important distinction between ‘benevolence-agapism’ and ‘care-agapism’, and his defence of the latter. The framework for this is laid out (drawing on several key New Testament passages), before showing the reasons for diverging from Wolterstorff on the question of conditional versus unconditional (invitational) forgiveness. It is argued that forgiveness as a work of love need not—as some of its defenders assume—be an instance of benevolence-agapism, but can rather be an instance of care-agapism. This shows that there is available an understanding of forgiveness as a work of love that manages to incorporate both agapic love and a proper concern for justice.
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