Miroslav Volf’s exploration of otherness is without peer in contemporary theology. Linden Fooks asks what we can learn from him on the meaning of reconciliation in a world of violence. Here’s Linden’s intro:

As the two hijacked aircraft flew toward the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, Miroslav Volf, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School addressed the 16th Annual United Nations International Prayer Breakfast. The title of his address was ‘From Exclusion to Embrace: Reflections on Reconciliation’. In this address, he wanted to consider the ‘many conflicts that rage around our world’. The conflicts had left gaping wounds in many societies. Yet even though the atrocities of Rwanda or Bosnia had cut many societies apart, Professor Volf argued that there was the possibility of reconciliation. For Christians, this possibility was entirely founded in the Christian message. The Christian gospel speaks of ‘the God of unconditional love … the God who died for the ungodly’. The speech was, of
course, cut short. The dark irony was that, as Volf spoke of religious reconciliation, less than two miles away the Twin Towers were crashing to the ground.

File: What we can learn from Miroslav Volf (Linden Fooks)