I recently caught up on this Australian Big Ideas feature on Miroslav Volf and his work on Exclusion and Embrace. It first aired on the 26th March 2014.
“Professor Miroslav Volf presents the idea of loving embrace as a theological response to the problems of alienation. This embrace is based on remembering events and actions truthfully and appreciating the position of people who have wronged you. And Miroslav Volf goes even a step further: He wants us to remember past wrong doings as already forgiven.”
You’ll find the podcast here.
Amazingly succint accurate accounting of the theology of christian forgiveness, and the immense courage of those who have walked this path in the most extreme circumstances.
Reminds me of the following article of the exhibition: Portraits of Rwanda, 20 Years on from Genocide. Where perpetrators and victims, are doing just that dealing with their own memories, forgiveness, and reconciling in order to be able to live alongside each other. An article about this continuing exhibition will also appear in the MiNDFOOD Magazine in Nov 2014.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html?_r=1/
Posted by: Cath | Saturday, 13 September 2014 at 07:01 AM