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What is forgiveness? Is God entitled to forgive the injuries a person inflicts upon another human being? Can God forgive at all? What does it mean to say that God forgives sins? Is human repentance a prerequisite for God's forgiveness? What is the church's role concerning the forgiving of sins? Does contemporary moral theory offer a morally viable account of human forgiveness? Which are the constitutive conditions of forgiveness? Is 'unconditional forgiveness' a tenable ideal of Christian forgiveness? How is forgiveness to be distinguished from related concepts such as reconciliation, condonation, or excuse? Are we morally obliged to grant forgiveness if asked? What is the relation between divine and human forgiveness? In critically dealing with these and further questions Karin Scheiber develops an analytically coherent and novel account of divine and human forgiveness.