Download PDF by Miroslav Volf: The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

By Miroslav Volf

ISBN-10: 0802829899

ISBN-13: 9780802829894

Can one overlook atrocities? may still one forgive abusers? Ought we now not desire for the ultimate reconciliation of the entire wronged and all wrongdoers alike, no matter if it capacity spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? we are living in an age whilst it really is more often than not authorised that earlier wrongs - genocides, terrorist assaults, bald own injustices - will be regularly remembered. yet Miroslav Volf right here proposes the unconventional concept that letting cross of such thoughts - after a definite element and lower than definite stipulations - may very well be the precise plan of action. whereas agreeing with the declare that to recollect a wrongdoing is to fight opposed to it, Volf notes that there are too some ways to recollect wrongly, perpetuating the evil dedicated instead of guarding opposed to it. during this method, "the simply sword of reminiscence usually severs the first-class it seeks to defend." He argues that remembering rightly has implications not just for the person but additionally for the culprit and for the bigger neighborhood. Volf's own tales of persecution supply a compelling backdrop for his look for theological assets to make stories a wellspring of therapeutic instead of a resource of deepening ache and animosity.
Controversial, considerate, and incisively reasoned, "The finish of reminiscence" starts off a talk difficult to ignore.

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