Abstract
ABSTRACT: This article attempts both to defend and to expand upon Marilyn McCord Adams's influential account of Christian forgiveness by reading it in conjunction with Marilynne Robinson's Gilead (2004). For all its merits, I argue, Adams's account relies heavily on its appeal to an experience that Adams herself fails to clearly define: namely, an "exchange of viewpoints" between God and the believer which enables the latter to forgive her wrongdoer. The claim of this article is that Gilead provides us with a clear and psychologically plausible picture of what such an "exchange" might look like in practice, and thus that Robinson's novel both enriches and lends plausibility to Adams's account.
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