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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with 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. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor...

beings exist in an irreducible duality of male and female; there are no generic human beings, only male or female human beings. Genesis 2 suggests that the duality is rooted in their sexed bodies. Adam awakes from a deep sleep, sees Eve, whom God has brought to him, and immediately recognizes—presumably, by seeing her body—both their profound unity and their undeniable difference: “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called Woman, for out of Man this one was taken” (v.
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