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
Miroslav Volf quotes about
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
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.
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.
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.
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.