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

by Miroslav Volf

he was the bringer of “grace,” who not only scandalously included “anyone” in the fellowship of “open commensality”57 but also made the “intolerant” demand of repentance and the “condescending” offer of forgiveness (Mark 1:15; 2:15-17).