Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated Volf Miroslav
Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated Volf Miroslav Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard…
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Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated Volf Miroslav
Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. 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. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil.
Of opening the door to reconciliation? Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.
Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and
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