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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...

course toward self-diminishment, even self-destruction.32 At the foundation of the vision is a shared universal horizon of God’s project with the world unveiled in Jesus Christ, the Word and the Lamb, through whom the worlds were made and reconciled to God.33 That project is to make the world into God’s home and thereby also into the home of God’s creatures—each creature unique and “locally rooted” and each, precisely in its delimited uniqueness and rootedness, constitutively open to all others, both