Discussion Questions How should the one who loves remember the wrongdoer and the wrongdoing? Is there a moral obligation to remember? Is there a moral obligation to forget? What does “remembering rightly” actually involve? What do you think of Volf’s claim: “it is impossible for any story to correspond formally to events of the past? Instead, to call a story true is to indicate that it is pleasing or that it offers a window into a desirable way of being in the world, or that it has succeeded as a move in the struggle for power…” (pg. 49) How does the history of the history of Volf’s own sin figure into the memory of Captain G? How do the virtue of Captain G. figure in to the memory? How does the idea of final judgment shape Volf’s understanding of memory? What effect does the death of Jesus Christ who saved the ungodly have on Captain G., the abuser? How should we remember his abuse, given that Christ atoned for it? What does it mean to remember a wrongdoing now in the framework of sitting together at the banquet table? What would that do to the memory of abuse? Should we desire a world where we no longer label people an abuser (or for their sin) every time we think of them?

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Discussion Questions

How should the one who loves remember the wrongdoer and the wrongdoing?

Is there a moral obligation to remember? Is there a moral obligation to forget?

What does “remembering rightly” actually involve?

What do you think of Volf’s claim: “it is impossible for any story to correspond formally to events of the past? Instead, to call a story true is to indicate that it is pleasing or that it offers a window into a desirable way of being in the world, or that it has succeeded as a move in the struggle for power…” (pg. 49)

How does the history of the history of Volf’s own sin figure into the memory of Captain G? How do the virtue of Captain G. figure in to the memory?

How does the idea of final judgment shape Volf’s understanding of memory?

What effect does the death of Jesus Christ who saved the ungodly have on Captain G., the abuser? How should we remember his abuse, given that Christ atoned for it?

What does it mean to remember a wrongdoing now in the framework of sitting together at the banquet table? What would that do to the memory of abuse?

Should we desire a world where we no longer label people an abuser (or for their sin) every time we think of them?

As a class come up with 1-2 questions that you would like me to ask Miroslav Volf about his book The End of Memory?

-JBH