Miroslav Volf, founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Henry B. Wright professor of systematic theology at Yale Divinity School presents "World Faiths: Politics, Economics, and Competing Visions of Human Flourishing" at Fuller Theological Seminary's 2014 Payton Lectures. The theme of this year's lectures was "World Faiths and Globalization: A Christian Response."
Dr. Volf is known as a "bridge-building" theologian. 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 (on the executive board of C-1 World Dialogue), and is an active 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. He received his MA from Fuller and two advanced degrees in theology from the University of Tübingen, Germany, studying under notable theologian Jürgen Moltmann.
Dr. Volf's books include Allah: A Christian Response (2011); Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (2006), which was the 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.
