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In Captive to the Word of God, eminent theologian Miroslav Volf invites readers to dip with him into the deep well of Scripture—to look over his shoulder as he engages actively with the Bible, which, as he notes, is at once a sacred text, a witness to Jesus Christ, and the site of God’s self-revelation for the sake of humanity’s salvation. After a probing explanation of how and why he uses...

to St. Matthew’s Gospel, God “makes his sun rise on [both] the evil and on the good” (Matt. 5:45). Third, God’s love is universal. The One God is the God of all humanity; therefore the love that God is, is the love for all humanity, irrespective of any differences or divisions that exist between human beings. Absolutely no one is excluded and no deed is imaginable that would exclude anyone from God’s love (though irredeemable wrongdoers—if there prove to be such people—will be excluded from “heaven”
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