We explore the redemptive value of remembering and ask, 'Is there anything beneficial we can learn?'
The redemptive value of the resurrection has been expressed through Christian art, as well as being expressed in theological writings.
But let's not set the bar so low that our streets, highways, stadiums and arenas are named for miscreants whose only redemptive value is their ability to put a baseball in orbit.
But they are chary about extolling its redemptive value.
To try to soothe such doubts with tired bromides about the redemptive value of art, blah, blah, blah, is to lull ourselves with the easy answers Williams has always refused.
Anyone who has been to prison, as I have, knows that incarceration as punishment for nonviolent crime has little redemptive value by itself.
Some theologians explain that the redemptive value of pain makes pain lovable in its effects, even though by itself it is not.
In a lawless century, his story has redemptive value, and his book readably adds to the literature about a divided nation groping to understand where it is heading, what it has been.
It's ironic, since the narrative emphasises the redemptive value of a good read, that the package might have worked better as a game than a book.
Dodson argues that the play promotes a negative view of sexuality, emphasizing sexual violence against women rather than the redemptive value of female sexuality.