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

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...

in diminished form are deemed subhuman. Given that the capacities of humans differ, capacities-based universalist anthropologies end up always denying (equal) humanity of some human beings.30 The same is even more true about those, mostly implicitly held, universalistic anthropologies that tie humanity to certain cultural practices. Theistic anthropologies can dispense with the appeal to shared capacities and instead ground common humanity and equality in God’s relation to humans. God’s unchangingly
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