Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volfis a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual who has been touted as "one of the most celebrated theologians of our day." Volf currently serves as the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. Volf previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatiaand Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California...
NationalityCroatian
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth25 September 1956
CountryCroatia
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
If no one remembers a misdeed or names it publically, it remains invisible. To the observer, its victim is not a victim and its perpetrator is not a perpetrator; both are misperceived because the suffering of the one and the violence of the other go unseen. A double injustice occurs-the first when the original deed is done and the second when it disappears.
After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.
God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.
We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.
The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
Muslims and Christians can work together to depose dictators and assert the power of the people. We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.
Some of the worst violence in the world today between estranged religious and ethnic groups happens not on the battlefields. It happens smack in the middle of living rooms and between people who share a lot, who have a lot in common.
To affirm that God is God is to want to live in a particular way.