Forgiving and Forgetting

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Forgiveness has traditionally been associated with a duty to remember in order for reconciliation to be possible; forgetting had to be excluded in the interest of a truthful and genuinely new beginning. The essays collected in this volume seek to challenge this traditional picture by finding new ways of relating forgiveness to forgetting ultimately leading to the precarious question of whether even God forgets when he forgives.
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.

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Hartmut von Sass
Born 1980; studied Protestant Theology and Philosophy in Göttingen, Edinburgh, and Berlin; PhD 2009; Habilitation 2012; 2022-24 Lynen Fellow at the New School for Social Research in New York City; Professor of Systematic Theology with a focus on Dogmatics and Philosophy of Religion at the University of Hamburg.

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