‘The remembering self’: Reflections on reconciliation and its absence

Referring initially to Sandor Marai’s novel, Embers, where a man seeks revenge for past wrongs rather than reconciliation, this piece maintains that reconciliation can result solely from complete remembrance of past hurt, then its confession and acceptance by victim and perpetrator. While humanity i...

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主要作者: Leah, Gordon (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: 2015
In: Theology
Year: 2015, 卷: 118, 發布: 3, Pages: 172-178
IxTheo Classification:HA Bible
NBK Soteriology
NCB Personal ethics
Further subjects:B Forgiveness
B Atonement
B Memory
B Reconciliation
B Revenge
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總結:Referring initially to Sandor Marai’s novel, Embers, where a man seeks revenge for past wrongs rather than reconciliation, this piece maintains that reconciliation can result solely from complete remembrance of past hurt, then its confession and acceptance by victim and perpetrator. While humanity in resentment, pride and intransigence struggles and often fails to achieve this because remembrance of hurt is too strong, Christ through his free decision to reconcile the world to God offers reconciliation by his identification with the hurt of all parties, thus creating atonement. I consider Cain and Abel and Luke 15, theologians and lay scholars.
ISSN:2044-2696
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040571X14565597