Forgiveness expert explores religious dimension
For more than a quarter of a century, psychologist Robert D. Enright
has been a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness—the kind of
guy Time magazine once dubbed "the forgiveness trailblazer."
Enright
has probed the mental and physical benefits that incest survivors,
adult children of alcoholics, cardiac patients and others can enjoy if
they choose to show mercy to those who have done them wrong.
His
work has taken him to global hotspots—to a school program of
"forgiveness education" for Catholic and Protestant children in
Northern Ireland and to a project to promote e-mail dialogue among
Jewish, Muslim and Christian children in Israel and Palestine.
