Forgiveness between remembrance and forgetting: Overcoming the power of past evil
In this chapter, I try to explain remembrance and forgetting with regard to human temporality. We need both, I argue, in order to maintain (or restore) our full integrity as existing in past, present, and future. forgiveness, I then suggest, can be inscribed into the same structure. It needs both re...
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Mohr Siebeck
2015
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| Tóm tắt: | In this chapter, I try to explain remembrance and forgetting with regard to human temporality. We need both, I argue, in order to maintain (or restore) our full integrity as existing in past, present, and future. forgiveness, I then suggest, can be inscribed into the same structure. It needs both remembrance and forgetting in order to become possible. I close my argument with some reflections on the possibility of divine forgiveness and divine forgetting. |
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