By D. C. Schindler . From Communio Summer 2023

"Through memory, we receive and allow ourselves to be formed by the great treasures that belong to our history and culture, which are particular reflections of eternal truths, all as a gift from God."

I. Modernity as Damatio Memoriae

II. "Re-Collecting" Memory

2.1 Platonic ἀνάμνεσις: Recollection as the soul's path, "further up and further in"

2.2 Old Testament : Remembrance as renewal

2.3 Roman monumentum as abiding power to remind

III. An Attempt at a General Definition

D.C. Schindler is professor of metaphysics and anthropology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America