 Miroslav Volf
Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology and Director for the Yale Center for Faith and Culture
B.A., Evangelical-Theological Faculty, Zagreb
M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary
Dr. Theol., University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Volf is a prolific author, whose book Exclusion and Embrace received the Grawemeyer Award for religion writing in 2002. Another of his books, Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, was selected as the Archbishop of Canterbury's official Lenten study book for 2006. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (1998) was a winner of the Christianity Today book award.
A member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Professor Volf was involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican Council for Promotion of Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (most recently in Christian-Muslim dialogue). A native of Croatia, he regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe.In addition to teaching required courses in systematic theology, Volf teaches courses on the theology of Luther, on grace and forgiveness, and many others. He has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of the horrendous violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. While he maintains active interest in many aspects of faith's relation to culture, his work primarily has focused on theological understandings of work, the church, the Trinity, violence, reconciliation and memory. |
