Faith and Globalization

About The Professor


Director, Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology



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(203) 432-5332



B.A., Evangelical-Theological Faculty, Zagreb

M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary

Dr. Theol., University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany



Professor Volf’s recent books include Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (2006), Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996), a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award; and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (1998), 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.





BOOKS



The Sun Is Not Afraid of the Darkness: Theological Meditations on the Poetry of Aleksa Santic, 1986



Zukunft der Arbeit -- Arbeit der Zukunft. Der Arbeitsbegriff bei Karl Marx und seine theologische Wertung, 1988



Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work, 1991



Gerechtigkeit, Geist und Schöpfung: Die Oxford-Erklärung zur Frage von Glaube und Wirtschaft

(ed. with Hermann Sautter, 1992)



The Future of Theology: Essays in Honor of Jürgen Moltmann

(ed. with T. Kucharz and C. Krieg, 1996)



Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, 1996



After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity, 1998



A Spacious Heart: Essays on Identity and Belonging

(with Judith M. Gundry-Volf, 1997)



A Passion for God's Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and the Christian Self

(ed., 1998)



Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace, 2005

Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf
Name: Miroslav Volf
Institution: Yale University
Website: http://www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.MVolf.shtml