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This chapter focuses on ‘Reconciliation, Healing and Forgiveness’: the life blood of Christian practice and theology. A theological frame of Cross and Resurrection, with reference to the work of René Girard, allows an analysis of how to move forward in the world of Brexit, and the costs of doing so. Practical programmes advocated by Justin Welby and Sam Wells for a future direction of travel for the UK are critiqued; they are found to be instructive but not sufficient. The learning for theology from ‘real world’ movements of reconciliation may be to value better modest fragments which may build to a multifaceted whole.
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Nixon, D. (2019). Reconciliation, Healing and Forgiveness. In: What Does God Think About Brexit?. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33942-5_7
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