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In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as “gathered community” that he shared with Radical Reformers. Volf seeks to...

A book is always written for a given context—for a linguistic community living at a particular time and place with particular shared beliefs, institutions, and practices.1 From an author’s perspective, it is unfortunate that a translator can translate only the book but not its context. But then, an author can often help the imagination of the readers by situating the book in its context. That is what I propose to do here: I will indicate how this book relates
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