Co-sponsored by the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard, the Abigail Adams Institute, the Lumen Christi Institute, the St. Anselm Institute, and COLLIS at Cornell.
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The Christian tradition in morality puts a heavy stress on forgiveness. But how realistic is it to keep on forgiving? Will doing so just encourage repeated offenses and injustice? Will it really bring healing and reconciliation? This careful analysis of the psychological, moral, social, and personal dimensions of forgiveness engages the best research in multiple fields and brings clarity to this cornerstone of ethics and the good life.
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Tyler J. VanderWeele is the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard, where he serves as Director of the Human Flourishing Program and Co-Director of the Initiative on Health, Religion and Spirituality. He has written and taught widely on psychosocial measurement theory, psychiatric and social epidemiology, the science of happiness and flourishing, and the study of religion and health. In addition to publishing over four hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals, he has authored several books, including most recently Measuring Well-Being (2021). Professor VanderWeele has a B.A in Philosophy and Theology as well as an M.A. in Mathematics from Oxford, an M.A. in Applied Economics from Wharton, and a PhD in Biostatistics from Harvard.
