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After Our Likeness: The Church As the Image of the Trinityby Miroslav VolfISBN 0802844405 (0-8028-4440-5)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'After Our Likeness: The Church As the Image of the Trinity'Book summary:In After Our Likeness, the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina series, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. The focus is the community of grace, the Christian church. The point of departure is the thought of the first Baptist, John Smyth, and the notion of church as "gathered community" that he shared with Radical Reformers.
Volf seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and to suggest a viable understanding of the church in which both person and community are given their proper due. In the process he engages in a sustained and critical ecumenical dialogue with the Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and the metropolitan John Zizioulas. The result is a brilliant ecumenical study that spells out a vision of the church as an image of the triune God. [via]More editions of After Our Likeness: The Church As the Image of the Trinity:
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The Best Christian Writing 2004by John Wilson, Miroslav VolfISBN 0787969648 (0-7879-6964-8)
Softcover, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best Christian Writing 2004'Book summary:This collection of the finest contemporary Christian writing is "a prime example of diverse beliefs among Christians." Los Angeles Times
This year's volume brings together an elegant and engaging array of essays by Christian luminaries tackling relevant issues. These writers distill the riches of belief into lucid explorations of faith and truth, reflecting the many dimensions of today's Christianity.
Includes contributions from a diverse group of distinguished writers:
David Batstone
J. Bottum
Andy Crouch
Scott Derrickson
Jennifer Holberg
Philip Jenkins
Douglas Jones
Jeremy Lott
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Wilfred M. McClay
Kathleen Norris
Julie Polter
The Preacher
James Calvin Schaap
Lewis B. Smedes
John D. Spalding
Tim Stafford
James R. Van Tholen
Lauren F. Winner
Albert Louis Zambone
Wendy Murray Zoba [via]More editions of The Best Christian Writing 2004:
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A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighborby Miroslav VolfISBN 0802863809 (0-8028-6380-9)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor'Book summary:In late 2007 Muslim leaders from around the world together issued in the pages of The New York Times an open letter to Christian leaders inviting cooperation as a step toward peace. That letter, A Common Word between Us and You, acknowledged real differences between the two faiths but nonetheless contended that righteousness and good works should be the only areas in which they compete. The 138 signatories included over a dozen grand muftis, an ayatollah, and a Jordanian prince, and the document was widely considered a groundbreaking step toward reconciliation between Islam and Christianity two major religions with a great deal in common. / That original letter and a collaborative Christian response Loving God and Neighbor Together both appear in this remarkable volume. Building on those original momentous documents, A Common Word further includes subsequent commentary and dialogue between Muslim and Christian scholars addressing critical and frequently asked questions. All in all, this eventful book encapsulates a brave and encouraging move toward harmony and accord between two world religions so often seen to be at odds. [via]
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The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent Worldby Miroslav VolfISBN 0802829899 (0-8028-2989-9)
Hardcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliationby Miroslav VolfISBN 0687002826 (0-687-00282-6)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation'Book summary: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 worldin the living rooms, in inner cities, or on the mountain rangestestify 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 exclusionthe 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 arrangementswhat 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 Pauls 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 Volfs 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. Volfs 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 ones own image. Volfwho 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 Centerwill 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 awardsgiven also by the University of Louisville in the fields of musical composition, education, psychology, and world orderhonor 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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Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Graceby Miroslav VolfISBN 0310265746 (0-310-26574-6)
Softcover, Zondervan
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The Future of Hope: Christian Tradition Amid Modernity and Postmodernityby Miroslav Volf , William KaterbergISBN 0802827527 (0-8028-2752-7)
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The Future of Theology: Essays in Honor of Jurgen Moltmannby Miroslav Volf , Thomas Kucharz, Carmen KriegISBN 0802849539 (0-8028-4953-9)
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A Passion for God's Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and the Christian Selfby Miroslav Volf , Thomas Kucharz, Carmen KriegISBN 0802844944 (0-8028-4494-4)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Lifeby Miroslav Volf , Dorothy C. BassISBN 0802849318 (0-8028-4931-8)
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A Spacious Heart: Essays on Identity and Beloningby Miroslav Volf , Judith M. Gundry VolfISBN 1563382016 (1-56338-201-6)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Spacious Heart: Essays on Identity and Beloning'Book summary:A Spacious Heart is a call to people to help heal the world by embracing "others" as they remain true to themselves. Ethnic differences pose a challenge to churches to struggle for a just peace between cultures, and A Spacious Heart addresses this problem by exploring the key aspects of the problem of diverse group identities. [via]
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Work in the Spiritby Miroslav VolfISBN 0195068084 (0-19-506808-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Zukunft Der Arbeit, Arbeit Der Zukunft: Der Arbeitsbegriff Bei Karl Marx Und Seine Theologische Wertungby Miroslav VolfISBN 378671326X (3-7867-1326-X)
Hardcover, Kaiser
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Trinitat Und Gemeinschaft: Eine okumenische Ekklesiologieby Miroslav VolfISBN 3786719594 (3-7867-1959-4)
Hardcover, M.-Grunewald-Verlag
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Zukunft Der Arbeit, Arbeit Der Zukunft: Der Arbeitsbegriff Bei Karl Marx Und Seine Theologische Wertungby Miroslav VolfISBN 3459017163 (3-459-01716-3)
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