Miroslav Volf
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Christianity
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theologian
Theology
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and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University
Yale University
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Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, which focuses in part on workplace spirituality
Workplace spirituality
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. He has been a member in both the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Evangelical Church in Croatia. He is widely known for his works on systematic theology, ethics, conflict resolution
Conflict resolution
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, and peace-making. Recently he contributed the essay, "Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Justice" to a new text on the atonement, Stricken by God? Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ.
Volf was born in Osijek
Osijek
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, Croatia, and studied at the Evangelical-Theological Faculty, Osijek (B.A), Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary
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(M.A) in Pasadena, California
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, and the University of Tübingen (Dr. Theol., Dr. Theol. habil.), where he studied under Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann
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His book Exclusion and Embrace was selected as among the 100 Books of the [20th] Century by Christianity Today
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Volf was the 2002 recipient of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award
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in Religion.
Volf was formerly a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary
Fuller Theological Seminary
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Books
- Allah: A Christian Response New York: HarperOne, 2011
- Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2009
- The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2006
- Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace New York: Zondervan, 2005
- After Our Likeness: The Church As The Image Of The Trinity Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1998
- I znam da sunce ne boji se tame. Teoloske meditacije o Santicevu vjerskom pjesnistvu ("The Sun Is Not Afraid of the Darkness." Theological Meditations on the Poetry of Aleksa SanticAleksa ŠanticAleksa Šantić was a Serb poet from Herzegovina.He was born and lived most his life in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a province that was occupied by Austria-Hungary in 1878 and annexed by them in 1908...
) Osijek: Izvori, 1986 - Zukunft der Arbeit -- Arbeit der Zukunft. Der Arbeitsbegriff bei Karl Marx und seine theologische Wertung München/Mainz: Christian Kaiser, 1988
- Translation into Croatian: Buducnost rada -- rad buducnosti. Pojam rada u Karla Marxa i njegovo teolosko vrednovanje (Biblioteka Filozofska istrazivanja 46) Zagreb: Hrvatsko filozofsko drustvo, 1991
- Work in the Spirit. Toward a Theology of Work New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
- Gerechtigkeit, Geist und Schöpfung. Die Oxford-Erklärung zur Frage von Glaube und Wirtschaft (ed. with Hermann Sautter) Wuppertal: Brockhaus, 1992
- The Future of Theology. Essays in Honor of Jürgen Moltmann (ed. with T. Kucharz and C. Krieg) Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996
- German edition: Theologie auf dem Weg in das dritte Jahrtausend Gütersloh: Christian Kaiser, 1996
- Exclusion and Embrace. A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation Nashville: Abingdon, 1996
- Translation into Croatian: Iskljucenje i zagrljaj. Teolosko promisljanje identiteta, drugosti i pomirenja Zagreb: Step Press, 1998
- Trinität und Gemeinschaft. Eine ökumenische Ekklesiologie Mainz/Neukirchen-Vlyn: Grünewald/Neukirchener, 1996
- Translation into English: After Our Likeness. The Church as the Image of the Trinity Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998
- A Spacious Heart. Essays on Identity and Belonging (with Judith M. Gundry-Volf) Harrisburg: Trinity Press, 1997
- A Passion for God's Reign. Theology, Christian Learning, and the Christian Self (ed.) Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998