by Miroslav Volf
The End of Memory— Remembering Rightly in a Violent World. Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconcilation 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, bald personal injustices— should be contantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories— after a certain point and under certain conditions— may actually be the appropriate course of action.
Free of Charge— Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace. We are at our human best when we give and forgive, Miroslav Volf writes. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile? A deeply personal yet profoundly thoughtful book, Free of Charge explores these questions— and the further questions to which they give rise— in light of God’s generosity and Christ’s sacrifice for us.