The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent WorldWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006 - 244 páginas Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconciliation of all the wronged and all wrongdoers alike, even if it means spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? We live in an age when it is generally accepted that past wrongs -- genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices -- should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that "letting go" of such memories -- after a certain point and under certain conditions -- may actually be the appropriate course of action. While agreeing with the claim that to remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it, Volf notes that there are too many ways to remember wrongly, perpetuating the evil committed rather than guarding against it. In this way, the just sword of memory often severs the very good it seeks to defend. He argues that remembering rightly has implications not only for the individual but also for the wrongdoer and for the larger community. Volfs personal stories of persecution offer a compelling backdrop for his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, "The End of Memory" begins a conversation hard to ignore. |
Índice
Memory of Interrogations | 3 |
Shield and Sword | 19 |
Speaking Truth Practicing Grace | 39 |
Wounded Self Healed Memories 88886 | 66 |
Frameworks of Memories | 85 |
Memory the Exodus and the Passion | 103 |
River of Memory River of Forgetting | 131 |
Defenders of Forgetting | 152 |
Harmonizing and Driving Out | 177 |
Rapt in Goodness | 192 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abuse argued Avishai Margalit Calvin Theological Seminary Canto Captain G Chapter Christ Christian claim committed Dante death deeds divine Elie Wiesel eternal evil evildoers exemplary memory Exodus and Passion experiences forgetting forgiven forgiveness Friedrich Nietzsche future gift give God’s grace Gregory of Nyssa guilt happened healing hope human Ibid identity imagination injustice interrogations Israel Jesus John Polkinghorne judgment Jürgen Moltmann justice Last Judgment lessons let go lives meaning memories of wrongs memory of suffered mind Miroslav Volf mistreatment moral obligation neighbors not-coming-to-mind obligation to remember offense one’s ourselves pain Passion memory past Paul Ricoeur perfect love perpetrators person Princeton question redeemed redemption relation remember rightly remember truthfully remember wrongs suffered retributive justice sacred memory salvation sense Sigmund Freud simply sins Søren Kierkegaard soul story suffered wrongs Theological tion trans trauma truth University Press victims world of love world of perfect wounded wrongdoing York
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