ONE:
Miroslav Volf’s ‘Exclusion & Embrace’ will perhaps be the most challenging book you will ever read.
This book is a beautiful and powerful examination of the forces that bring us together or tear us apart. The book contains many profound ideas with abundant illustrations from the Bible and modern history. Volf is a thoughtful Protestant theologian born in Croatia who has experienced first hand all of the devastating consequences of “exclusion” as practiced between his people and Serbia. He looks at the many ways we exclude people who are different from ourselves by dehumanizing, judging, labeling and demonizing. Thus, we render inferior and less than human, people who differ by race, culture, economic status, religion and gender. And so we perpetuate injustice and victimization.
TWO:
Christ and the Other is a challenging debut title from Rev’d Dr. Graham Adams, tutor at Norther College, Manchester – based at Luther King House.
The unique approach in this book is to explore the differing perspectives of conservative and liberal theologies through the works of Leslie Newbigin and John Hick in a search for a distinct theology of ‘the other’.
An excellent read for the theologically literate.
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THREE:
Andrew Shanks is Cannon Theologian at Manchester Cathedral and is author of many books.
What is Truth looks creatively at how we engage with the world, particularly those people we consider different from ourselves.
An exciting piece of work – radical in its approach to theology, and expressed in a lively accessible style.
Radical Welcome 