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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...

creates life” (131). On the cross, Christ both “identifies God with the victims of violence” and identifies “the victims with God, so that they are put under God’s protection and with him are given the rights of which they have been deprived” (131). These Christological and Trinitarian themes woven around the “passion of God” will be familiar to those acquainted with Moltmann’s earlier works. In The Spirit of Life, however, he gives prominence to an aspect of the cross earlier left underdeveloped. The
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