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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

دسته بندی: اقتصاد
ویرایش: First Edition 
نویسندگان: Miroslav Volf  
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ISBN (شابک) : 0687002826, 9780687002825 
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سال نشر: 1996 
تعداد صفحات: 296 
زبان: English 
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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 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 not only as we "learn to live with one another," but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Miroslav Volf, a Yale University theologian, has won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for his book, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). Volf argues that “exclusion” of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today. He writes, “It may not be too much to claim that the future of our world will depend on how we deal with identity and difference. The issue is urgent. The ghettos and battlefields throughout the world—in the living rooms, in inner cities, or on the mountain ranges—testify indisputably to its importance.” A Croatian by birth, Volf takes as a starting point for his analysis the recent civil war and “ethnic cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia, but he readily finds other examples of cultural, ethnic, and racial conflict to illustrate his points.  And, since September 11, one can scarcely help but plug the new world players into his incisive descriptions of the dynamics of interethnic and international strife. Exclusion happens, Volf argues, wherever impenetrable barriers are set up that prevent a creative encounter with the other. It is easy to assume that “exclusion” is the problem or practice of “barbarians” who live “over there,” but Volf persuades us that exclusion is all too often our practice “here” as well. Modern western societies, including American society, typically recite their histories as “narratives of inclusion,” and Volf celebrates the truth in these narratives. But he points out that these narratives conveniently omit certain groups who “disturb the integrity of their ‘happy ending’ plots.” Therefore such narratives of inclusion invite “long and gruesome” counter-narratives of exclusion—the brutal histories of slavery and of the decimation of Native American populations come readily to mind, but more current examples could also be found. Most proposed solutions to the problem of exclusion have focused on social arrangements—what kind of society ought we to create in order to accommodate individual or communal difference? Volf focuses, rather, on “what kind of selves we need to be in order to live in harmony with others.” In addressing the topic, Volf stresses the social implications of divine self-giving. The Christian scriptures attest that God does not abandon the godless to their evil, but gives of Godself to bring them into communion. We are called to do likewise—“whoever our enemies and whoever we may be.” The divine mandate to embrace as God has embraced is summarized in Paul’s injunction to the Romans: “Welcome one another, therefore, just as Christ has welcomed you” (Romans 15:7). Susan R. Garrett, Coordinator of the Religion Award, said that the Grawemeyer selection committee praised Volf’s book on many counts. These included its profound interpretation of certain pivotal passages of Scripture and its brilliant engagement with contemporary theology, philosophy, critical theory, and feminist theory. “Volf’s focus is not on social strategies or programs but, rather, on showing us new ways to understand ourselves and our relation to our enemies. He helps us to imagine new possibilities for living against violence, injustice, and deception.” Garrett added that, although addressed primarily to Christians, Volf's theological statement opens itself to religious pluralism by upholding the importance of different religious and cultural traditions for the formation of personal and group identity. The call to “embrace the other” is never a call to remake the other into one’s own image. Volf—who had just delivered a lecture on the topic of Exclusion and Embrace at a prayer breakfast for the United Nations when the first hijacked plane hit the World Trade Center—will present a lecture and receive his award in Louisville during the first week of April, 2002. The annual Religion Award, which includes a cash prize of $200,000, is given jointly by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville to the authors or originators of creative works that contribute significantly to an understanding of “the relationship between human beings and the divine, and ways in which this relationship may inspire or empower human beings to attain wholeness, integrity, or meaning, either individually or in community.” The Grawemeyer awards—given also by the University of Louisville in the fields of musical composition, education, psychology, and world order—honor the virtue of accessibility: works chosen for the awards must be comprehensible to thinking persons who are not specialists in the various fields.

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EXCLUSION AND EMBRACE......Page 2
PREFACE......Page 3
Images of Three Cities......Page 5
A World Without the Other......Page 7
Social Arrangements, Social Agents......Page 10
The Cross at the Center......Page 12
The Scandal and the Promise......Page 15
Themes and Steps......Page 18
Complicity......Page 21
Departing . . .......Page 23
. . . Without Leaving......Page 27
Culture, Catholicity, and Ecumenicity......Page 33
The Dubious Triumph of Inclusion......Page 37
Differentiation, Exclusion, Judgment......Page 43
The Self and Its Center......Page 46
The Anatomy and Dynamics of Exclusion......Page 49
Contrived Innocence......Page 55
The Power of Exclusion......Page 60
Cain\'s Assault......Page 66
CHAPTER 3--Embrace......Page 72
The Ambiguities of Liberation......Page 73
Adieu to the Grand Narratives......Page 77
The Politics of the Pure Heart......Page 81
The Practice of Forgiveness......Page 88
Space for the Other: Cross, Trinity, Eucharist......Page 93
Paradise and the Affliction of Memory......Page 98
The Drama of Embrace......Page 104
Contract, Covenant, Embrace......Page 111
The Open Arms of the Father......Page 118
\"Out of a Rib of Man\'s God\"......Page 126
Gender-Divine or Human?......Page 128
Trinitarian Identities......Page 134
Gender Identity......Page 138
Whose Rib?......Page 144
Justice Against Justice......Page 146
The One and the Only Justice......Page 149
Many Names, Many Justices......Page 153
Justice Within Tradition......Page 156
Overlapping Territories, Basic Commitments......Page 158
Justice, Commitments, Differences......Page 161
Seeking Justice, Fighting Injustice......Page 165
Seeking Justice, Embracing the Other......Page 168
Native Languages, Shared Possessions......Page 173
A Toast to the Past......Page 179
A Counter Toast......Page 182
To Say It the Way It Really Was......Page 185
Regimes of Truth......Page 188
Double Vision......Page 192
Truthfulness and Embrace......Page 196
Truth and Community......Page 200
Jesus Before Pilate: Truth Against Power......Page 204
Truth, Freedom, Violence......Page 210
Crucified Messiah, Rider on the White Horse......Page 213
Reason Against Violence......Page 215
Warring Peoples, Bellicose Gods......Page 219
Cosmic Terror......Page 222
Breaking the Cycle of Violence......Page 226
The Rider on the White Horse......Page 230
The Cross or the Sword?......Page 234
Prospects for War, Prospects for Peace......Page 236
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 240
Notes......Page 277
EXCLUSION AND EMBRACE:A THEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF IDENTITY, OTHERNESS, AND RECONCILIATION......Page 296

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