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Miroslav Volf — Religion and Violence

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Impossible Ethical Ideal of Nations Forgiving

In order to have a hopeful kind of politics, you have to have something like the experience of forgiveness which is not setting justice aside. The idea that nations forgiving because the past can't be undone is an impossible ethical ideal in that sense as well. And they were getting at what Reinhold Niebore called one of those impossible ethical.

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