THEOLOGY, HISTORY, and ETHICS
THE HOME OF GOD A Brief Story of Everything Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz
THEOLOGY FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD
We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe and in the anxious nationalism awaiting them when they reach their destinations. It is evident in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities and in the fractured households of families. It is evident in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more quietly but just as truly, in the aching sense that there is nowhere we truly belong. In this moment, the Christian faith has been disappointingly inept in its response. We need a better witness to the God who created, loves, and reconciles this world, who comes to dwell among us. In The Home of God , Miroslav Volf and Ryan McAnnally-Linz tell the “story of everything” in which God creates the world as the home for humans and for God in communion with God’s crea- tures. The authors render the story of creation, redemption, and consummation through the lens of God’s homemaking work and show the theological fruit of telling the story this way. The result is a vision that can inspire creative Christian living in our various homes today in faithfulness to God’s ongoing work. This book will resonate with professors and students of theology, pastors, and other Christian readers. FROM THE BOOK The contrast between Babylon and the New Jerusalem . . . is a reminder that a vison of home is a vision of life set in a story of everything. The visions differ, often to such a degree that moving out of one and into the other seems like crossing a ravine. . . . But there are significant overlaps as well. To many Jerusalemites, the Babylonian way of life is almost irresistibly alluring. And conversely, many self-proclaimed and practicing Babylonians have experienced more of the New Jerusalem than they like to admit. All of them have longed for it, even if unknowingly. That’s be- cause . . . the line between Babylon and the New Jerusalem does not run between religion and secularism or between Christianity and everything else. It runs . . . through each human—and each Christian—heart.
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AUGUST 2022 • 288 pp. • cloth • $32.99 • 9781587434792
Miroslav Volf (DrTheol, University of Tübingen) is the Henry B. Wright Profes- sor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His many books include A Public Faith , Flourishing , and Exclusion and Embrace . Ryan McAnnally-Linz (PhD, Yale University) is associate director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He is the coauthor, with Miroslav Volf, of Public Faith in Action and editor of The Joy of Humility and Envisioning the Good Life .
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