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An Obligation to Remember Eternally?

Resentment, even in the name of justice, is not for those who expect God's final reconciliation.

Miroslav Volf, excerpted from The End of Memory | posted 5/18/2007 08:33AM

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This was excerpted from The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World by Miroslav Volf. Copyright 2006 Miroslav Volf. All rights reserved. Published in 2006 by Eerdmans. Used by permission.

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The End of Memory is available from ChristianBook.com and other retailers.

Volf spoke to Christianity Today about how to stop the "shield of memory" from turning into a sword.

More about Miroslav Volf is available from his faculty page at Yale, as well as a profile in Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.

ChristianBibleStudies.com has a new study on dealing with difficult memories that corresponds to Volf's article.

Christianity Today profiled Volf in 1999. Other CT articles by or about Volf and his books include:

The Church's Great Malfunctions | We should be our own fiercest critics, doing so out of the deep beauty and goodness of our faith. (November 10, 2006)

Free, but Not Easy | Why grace is so rare among Christians. (Books & Culture, June 1, 2006)

Kissing the Lizard | On memory and forgiveness. (Miroslav Volf, Books & Culture, March 1, 2004)

The Eighth Day of Creation | From a Russian Orthodox philosopher, a provocative alternative to modernity. (Miroslav Volf, Books & Culture, January 1, 2004)

After the Grave in the Air | True reconciliation comes not by ignoring justice nor by putting justice first, but by unconditional embrace. By Miroslav Volf (Sept. 21, 2001).

How Can You Be Croatian? | Why national identities are worth preserving. (Miroslav Volf, Books & Culture, January 1, 2001)

Love Your Heavenly Enemy | How are we going to live eternally with those we can't stand now? (Oct. 23, 2000)

Peace Be With You | Looking beyond naivete and cynicism about peacemaking at Wheaton's Christianity and Violence conference. (March 20, 2000)

Meditation: A Mother's Strange Love | Our adopted son's birth mother taught me how to love my child. (June 14, 1999)

New Theologians | These top scholars are believers who want to speak to the church. (Feb. 8, 1999)

The Clumsy Embrace | Croatian Miroslav Volf wanted to love his Serbian enemies; the Prodigal's father is showing him how. (Oct. 5, 1998)

Jehovah on Trial | Regina Schwartz argues that the way to peace is by killing off monotheism. (Miroslav Volf, March 27, 1998)

Finding the Will to Embrace the Enemy | What it means to follow the crucified Christ in the midst of ethnic and racial conflict. (April 28, 1997)

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George T.

Posted: May 19, 2007 9:34 AM


Beautiful thought and so difficult to put into practice with every situation. But after all: Isn't it what Christianity is all about ?

Matt Copeland

Posted: May 18, 2007 7:29 PM


I thought this piece was truly beautiful, both in its message and in its expression. It is so refreshing to hear a reminder of the reality of grace and forgivness; a message of reconciliation, love, and salvation universally open to all sinners. It is refreshing to hear this in a church that is divided politically and theologically. Grace is scandelous and beautiful.

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