Using the framework of the Holocaust and many other horrid events in history, Zahnd examines what radical forgiveness can look like because of the Cross. This forgiveness does NOT sacrifice justice or cause us to "forget" what happened, but rather it's absorbing the wrong so that the cycle of revenge does not continue (because avenging is not our job). This is what Jesus did on the cross - he broke the cycle of revenge, because a life without revenge is a better life. This is not looking at forgiveness in an academic classroom or in a theoretical, ideal world - this is grappling with the real issues.

This was the first book by Zahnd that I've read, and it definitely won't be my last. Zahnd's writing is fresh and daringly prophetic, but please understand when I write "prophetic" I don't mean hell-fire-brimstone, I mean the office of the prophetic that is the heart revealer of the church that reveals all in grace, mercy, and truth. Highly recommended.