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

by Miroslav Volf

within primeval history, the story about a murderous “them” is a story about a murderous “us.” Cain is “them,” and Cain is “us”; “Cain” is all the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve in relation to their brothers and sisters.