The end of memory : remembering rightly in a violent world / Miroslav Volf.
Material type: TextPublication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006.Description: viii, 244 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780802829894
- 0802829899
- 241/.4 22
- BV4597.565 .V65 2006
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Book: Standard | Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre | Main | BV4597.565 .V65 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 07-513 |
Includes index.
1. Memory of interrogations -- 2. Memory : shield and sword -- 3. Speaking truth, practicing grace -- 4. Wounded self, healed memories -- 5. Frameworks of memories -- 6. Memory, the exodus, and the passion -- 7. River of memory, river of forgetting -- 8. Defenders of forgetting -- 9. Redemption : harmonizing and driving out -- 10. Rapt in goodness -- Postscript : an imagined reconciliation.
Part One: Remember! -- Memory of interrogations -- Memory: shield and sword -- Part Two: How should we remember? -- Speaking truth, practicing grace -- Wounded self, healed memories -- Frameworks of memories -- Memory, the Exodus, and the Passion -- Part Three: How long should we remember? -- River of memory, river of forgetting -- Defenders of forgetting -- Redemption: harmonizing and driving out -- Rapt in goodness -- Postscript: an imagined reconciliation.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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