Current psychological artifacts available on forgiveness recongize the discussion over the meaning of forgiveness. Robert Enright's (1998) basis for the Forgiveness Counseling Model is languages of love and kind-heartedness are fundamental for forgiving.

Theorist believe that forgiveness, as a whole, is an interpersonal process. Certainly, it is easier to agree on what forgiveness is, because forgiveness is not an easy task (McCullough, Pargament, & Thoresen, 2000).

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Although most scholars agree that forgiveness should not be tangled with another associated concept (e.g. reconciliation) some authors propose that reconciliation is a desired endpoint of the forgiveness process, making it the central construct of the Forgiveness Counseling Model (Pollard et al., 1998). Nevertheless, there is agreement that forgiveness should be renowned from allied constructs such as condoning, pardoning, tolerating, and forgetting (Rye et al., 2001).

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Reference:

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McCullough, M. E., Pargament, K. I., & Thoresen, C. E. (Eds.). (2000). Forgiveness: Theory, research, and practice. New York: Guilford Press.

 

Pollard, M. W., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, W. T., & Jennings, G. (1998). The development of a family forgiveness scale. Journal of Family Therapy, 20, 95–110.

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