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The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

these results, or even that as a rule it does produce them. In no way do I want only to associate remembering wrongs with perdition. My point is, however, that the memory of wrongs suffered is from a moral standpoint dangerously undetermined. Elie Wiesel is well aware that the memory of wrongs suffered—even the memory of the Holocaust, marks of which he bears on his own body—can have widely divergent effects, some of them pernicious. At least as well as anyone, he knows the pain of memory and therefore
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