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

by Miroslav Volf

Abraham is a progenitor of a people which, as Franz Rosenzweig puts it, “even when it has a home . . . is not allowed full possession of that home. It is only ‘a stranger and a sojourner.’ God tells it: ‘The land is mine’” (Rosenzweig 1971, 300).