The end of memory : remembering rightly in a violent world / Miroslav Volf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Volf, Miroslav, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

Stob lectures ; 2002.

The Stob lectures ; 2002

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Memory.

Reconciliation--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Reconciliation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

polychrome

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Christianity and Culture -- How should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together? -- We live in an age which insists that past wrongs--genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices--should never be forgotten. 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 a gift of grace we should embrace. Volf's personal stories of persecution and interrogation frame 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 that we avoid to our great detriment. -- This second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to his critics, and a recent James K. A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life.

Contents:

1 Memory of Interrogations p. 3

2 Memory: Shield and Sword p. 19

Part 2 How Should We Remember?

3 Speaking Truth, Practicing Grace 39'

4 Wounded Self, Healed Memories p. 66

5 Frameworks of Memories p. 85

6 Memory, the Exodus, and the Passion p. 103

Part 3 How Long Should We Remember?

7 River of Memory, River of Forgetting p. 131

8 Defenders of Forgetting p. 152

9 Redemption: Harmonizing and Driving Out p. 177

10 Rapt in Goodness p. 192.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 2, 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781467462020

1467462020

Publisher Number:

99986428974

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.