Miroslav Volf

Professor Volf is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.  His books include Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996; revised edition, 2019), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and named one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20^th Century; Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016); The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything (2022), co-authored with Ryan McAnnally-Linz; and, most recently, co-authored with Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most (2023).

A member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Professor Volf has been involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (including the Muslim and Christian “A Common Word” initiative), as well as a participant in the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum.  A native of Croatia, he regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and across North America.  Amongst his many invited lectureships, he has given the Dudleian Lecture at Harvard University; the Chavasse Lectures at Oxford University; the Waldenstroem Lectures at Stockholm School of Theology; the Gray Lectures at Duke University; the Stob Lectures at Calvin University; and the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham.  In May 2025, he will deliver the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, UK.  

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Books

1. With Matthew Croasmun & Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Life Worth Living A Guide to What Matters Most (Penguin Random House, 2023).
2. With Ryan McAnnally-Linz, The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything (Brazos, 2022).
3. With Matthew Croasmun, The Hunger for Home: Food and Meals in the Gospel of Luke (Baylor, 2022).
4. The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World, Revised Edition (Eerdmans, 2021).
5. Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, Revised Edition (Abingdon, 2019).
6. With Matthew Croasmun, For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (Brazos, 2019).
7. With Ryan McAnnally-Linz, Public Faith in Action: How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity (Brazos, 2016).
8. Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (Yale, 2016).
9. Editor, with Justin Crisp, Joy and Human Flourishing: Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life (Fortress, 2015).
10. Editor, Do We Worship the Same God?: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue (Eerdmans, 2012).
11. A Public Faith:  How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (Brazos Press, 2011).
12. Allah: A Christian Response (HarperOne, 2011).
13. Captive to the Word of God: Engaging the Scriptures for Contemporary Theological Reflection (Eerdmans, 2010).
14. Editor, with Ghazi bin Muhammad and Melissa Yarrington, A Common Word:  Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor (Eerdmans, 2009).
15. Against the Tide:  Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities (Eerdmans, 2009).
16. The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (Eerdmans, 2006).
17. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (Zondervan, 2005).
18. Editor, A Passion for God’s Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and the Christian Self (Eerdmans, 1998).
19. After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998).
20. With Judith M. Gundry Volf, A Spacious Heart: Essays on Identity and Belonging, co-author (Trinity Press, 1997).
21. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996).
22. Editor, with T. Kucharz & C. Krieg, The Future of Theology: Essays in Honor of Jürgen Moltmann (Eerdmans, 1996).
23. Editor, with Sautter and Hermann, Gerechtigkeit, Geist und Schöpfung: Die Oxford-Erklärung zur Frage von Glaube und Wirtschaft (Brockhaus Verlog, 1992).
24. Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work (Oxford University Press, 1991).
25. Zukunft der Arbeit – Arbeit der Zukunft. Der Arbeitsbegriff bei Karl Marx und seine theologische Wertung (1988).
26. The Sun Is Not Afraid of the Darkness: Theological Meditations on the Poetry of Aleksa Santic (Osijek: Izvori, 1986).