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Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

by Volf Miroslav Volf

  • Hardback
  • 410 pages
  • Publisher: Abingdon Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

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For Christians seeking to understand otherness and reconciliation

Addresses the growing issue of exclusion in society today

You will learn to embrace differences and foster peace

This book offers a profound theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation in today's world.

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Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "learn to live with one another," but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God. Volf won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for the first edition of his book, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). In that first edition, professor Volf, a Croatian by birth, analyzed the civil war and "ethnic cleansing" in the former Yugoslavia, and he readily found other examples of cultural, ethnic, and racial conflict to illustrate his points. Since September 11, 2001, and the subsequent epidemic of terror and massive refugee suffering throughout the world, Volf revised Exclusion and Embrace to account for the evolving dynamics of inter-ethnic and international strife.
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  • Title

    Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

  • Author

    Volf Miroslav Volf

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Abingdon Press

  • Published

    August 2019

  • Weight

    704g

  • Page Count

    410

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781501896255

  • ISBN-10

    1501896253

  • Eden Code

    5090981

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