BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The common reaction of most of us to pictures of Americans killed and defiled in a foreign land is a call for revenge. But we have a profile today of a Christian theologian who ...
The deep friendship between the theologian and poet Christian Wiman is built around mutual respect and a willingness to tackle life’s hardest questions. “My office or a big room?” Miroslav Volf asked.
Why grace is so rare among Christians. Miroslav Volf, the leading Protestant theologian of his generation, has written a book that might serve as a model for how to do “public theology”—a book that ...
When I talked to Yale theologian Miroslav Volf last summer, he was being considered as possible dean of Harvard Divinity School. He had told Harvard’s president Lawrence Summers quite clearly that if ...
According to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his co-teacher for the “Faith and Globalization” seminar, Miroslav Volf, is a “a lot smarter and more knowledgeable than me.” But questions of ...
It’s a question that has vexed the human race throughout time: How can you live a life filled with meaning? Yale University theology professor Miroslav Volf attempts to help students find the answer ...
If you know nothing else about religion or spirituality, it is essential you learn this: that there is in the heart of every human being a beast lying dormant. This beast is, for the most part, ...
For some, this Arabic-to-English translation is where the comparison ends. For Miroslav Volf, an Episcopalian professor of theology at Yale’s Divinity School, it is a direct route over the “chasm of ...
Arguing that Christians are called to imitate God's generosity, Volf, a theology professor at Yale Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, explores what that looks like in ...
Miroslav Volf's faith in Christianity and allegiance to Jesus' message has landed him in the public square and made him into a political pluralist, too. These affinities are behind his newest book, A ...