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Forgiveness has traditionally been associated with a duty to remember in order for reconciliation to be possible. Human failure, evil, and atrocities could thus only be forgiven on the basis of a saving memory. Forgetting, by contrast, had to be excluded in the interest of a truthful and genuinely new beginning. Historical experience, it seemed, supported this account. The essays collected in this volume seek to challenge this traditional picture - by elaborating on the notion of forgetting, by reappreciating its constructive or even necessary impact on our lives, by paying heed to the potential obstacles for reconciliation due to an unforgiving remembrance, by clarifying the relationship between remembrance and forgetting, which is not necessarily complementary, and by finding new ways of relating forgiveness to forgetting ultimately leading to the precarious question of whether even God forgets when he forgives.
ISBN: 9783161540813
Auflage: 1
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 233
Produktart: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Herausgeber: Zachhuber, Johannes von Sass, Hartmut
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck
Veröffentlicht: 01.12.2015
Untertitel: Theology and the Margins of Soteriology
Schlagworte: Augustine Christentum Memory Nietzsche Reconciliation Remembering Theologie Theologie, Christentum Theologische Ethik