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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...

what I could sense like a charge in the air: I was leaving Hungary and entering Croatian space. I felt relief—something of what a Hispanic or Korean person must feel in the parts of South Central Los Angeles where they are surrounded by their own, something of what South African blacks must have felt after Apartheid was dismantled. In what used to be Yugoslavia one was almost expected to apologize for being a Croat. Now I was free to be who I am. Yet the longer I was in the country, the more hemmed in
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