Exclusion and Embrace
A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
$93.03
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
20 August 2019
Summary
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 door to reconciliation? Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501861079 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501861077 |
| Author: | Miroslav Volf |
| Publisher: | Abingdon Press |
| Imprint: | Abingdon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 20 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 592g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 154mm |
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About The Author
Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tübingen, Germany. He has written or edited more than 20 books and over 100 scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th century; Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016) and (with Matthew Croasmun) For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (2019).
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