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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, personal injustices—should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the...

you. The two lessons are closely linked; the second is portrayed as the consequent obligation of the first. In an unjust and violent world, deliverance of the downtrodden requires uncompromising struggle against their oppressors—or so the memory of the Exodus suggests. As I will show shortly, the memory of the Passion will partly reaffirm and partly modify these two lessons of the memory of the Exodus. What are the implications of the sacred memory
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