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 Volfs 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 Volfs 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 Volfs 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