Professor of Theology, Yale Divinity School
         

Miroslav Volf is considered by many to have one of the most fertile and provocative Christian minds today. Born in Osijek (in present-day Croatia) and raised in Communist Novi Sad (in present-day Serbia), this son of a Pentecostal pastor earned a master's degree at Fuller Theological Seminary and a doctorate at the University of Tübingen, studying under Jürgen Moltmann. Volf has been the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School since 1998.
 
As a young man in communist Yugoslavia, Volf saw firsthand the ethnic frictions that turned bloody after the breakup of that country. His quest for a resolution to the violence and bloodshed in his country led him on a journey of intense theological reflection which soon caught the notice of the academic world. His widely read 1996 book Exclusion & Embrace probed theological implications of reconciliation in a fractured world, arguing that “exclusion” of people who are alien or different is among the most intractable problems in the world today. Most recently, this book has won the prestigious 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
 
Volf is the author of more than 50 theological articles and nine books. He frequently contributes editorials and articles to popular publications, notably Christianity Today. His works have been translated into numerous languages, including Dutch, Croation, Spanish, Hungarian and German, and he is often invited to speak on exclusion as a source of social conflict and ways of overcoming it.

“Miroslav Volf finds hope, not in the answers offered either by modernism or postmodernism but in the challenge revealed at the heart of the gospel: the wounded yet healing embrace of the suffering servant Jesus."   
 
Luke Timothy Johnson,
Chandler School of Theology

All lectures will be held at:
The Institute for Christian Studies
2nd Floor, 229 College Street Toronto