End of Memory
Subtitle: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company, William B.
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780802878670
Description: 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. The second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to critics, and a James K.A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life. --Book jacket.