Book Review
of
expulsion and Embrace
A theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and expiation
by
Miroslav Volf
A DMin 7310 Report
Submitted to
Dr. Roger Olson and Dr. Bert Dominy
George W. Truett theological Seminary
Baylor University
By
Timothy L. Brown
Waco, Texas
February 14, 2006
Volf, Miroslav, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1996), 336 pages, $16.00 paper jeopardize, ISBN: 0687002826.
Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright professor of Systematic theology at Yale Divinity School. He also serves as visit Professor of Systematic theology of the Evangelical-Theological Faculty in Osijek, Croatia, his undergraduate alma mater. Volf, a native of Croatia, received his M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary and some(prenominal) his Doctor of Theology and Doctor of Theology habil. from the University of Tubingen, Germany. Volf served as co-editor (1979-84) and then editor (1984-89) of Izvori a Croatian Christian monthly and he has published numerous books and articles in the U.S., Germany, and his native country.
His book Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation received the 2002 Grawemeyer Award which is given annually by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. The book focuses on exclusion between groups of people and reaches back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation. It offers the judgement of embrace as a theological response to the occupation of alienation of peoples.
Other books authored by Volf include A honey for Gods Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and The Christian ego (Eerdmans, 1997) and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the three (Eerdmans, 1998). The latter is the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age series edited by Alan G. Padgett. The series...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay
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