Exclusion and embrace [[electronic resource] ] : a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation / / Miroslav Volf

• Autore: Volf Miroslav
• Pubblicazione: Nashville, : Abingdon Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Disciplina: 241/.675
• Soggetto topico: Identification (Religion); Reconciliation - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: EXCLUSION AND EMBRACE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1--Distance and Belonging; CHAPTER 2--Exclusion; CHAPTER 3--Embrace; CHAPTER 4--Gender Identity; CHAPTER 5-Oppression and Justice; CHAPTER 6-Deception and Truth; CHAPTER 7-Violence and Peace; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Notes; EXCLUSION AND EMBRACE: A THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY, OTHERNESS, AND RECONCILIATION
• Sommario/riassunto: Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with 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. 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 pe
• Titolo autorizzato: Exclusion and embrace
• ISBN: 1-4267-1233-2; 0-687-02555-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910528716403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II