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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...

insist on living according to the same pattern of life and death shown by Jesus.32 Johnson finds the same narrative of Christ’s self-giving love at the center of the whole New Testament, not just the Gospels. The meaning of the ministry of Jesus lies in its ending, and the abbreviated story of the ending is the model Christians should imitate. In the New Testament as a whole, Johnson concludes, “Jesus is the suffering servant whose death is a radical act of obedience toward God and an expression of loving
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