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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...

(Gundry-Volf 1994, 102f.; Trible 1978, 18), so also Paul’s claim that in Christ there is “no longer ‘male and female’” entails no eschatological denial of gender dimorphism. What has been erased in Christ is not the sexed body, but some important culturally coded norms attached to sexed bodies (such as the obligation to marry and procreate and the prohibition of women from performing certain functions in the church). The oneness in Christ is a community of people with sexed bodies and distinct gender
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