Miroslav volf a yale university theologian has won the 2002 louisville grawemeyer award in religion for his book exclusion embrace a theological exploration of identity otherness and reconciliation abingdon 1996 volf argues that exclusion of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today he writes it may not be too much to claim that the future of our world will depend on how we deal with identity and difference the issue . Miroslav volf a yale university theologian has won the 2002 louisville grawemeyer award in religion for his book exclusion embrace a theological exploration of identity otherness and reconciliation abingdon 1996. Reaching back to the new testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our ever narrowing circle in light of this christians must learn that salvation comes not only as we are reconciled to god and not only as we learn . Miroslav volf a yale university theologian has won the 2002 louisville grawemeyer award in religion for his book exclusion embrace a theological exploration of identity otherness and. Miroslav volf a yale university theologian has won the 2002 louisville grawemeyer award in religion for his book exclusion embrace a theological exploration of identity otherness and reconciliation abingdon 1996 volf argues that exclusion of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today he writes it may not be too much to claim that the future of our world will depend on how we deal with identity and difference the issue