Bücher von Miroslav Volf

Addressing the aching sense that there is nowhere we truly belong, this book tells the "story of everything" in which God creates this world as the home for humans and for God.

Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?Yale University religion scholar Miroslav Volf?widely known for the much-publicized course on faith and globalization he coteaches with Tony Blair?places this question at the root of the twenty-first century's most sensitive, and critical, geopolitical concerns. Volf reveals how the prevalent belief that these traditions worship different gods is directly linked to increased hostility and violence around the globe. Theological wars fuel real wars.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFinancial Times' "Best books of 2023 — Health & Wellness" "Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be." --Kelly Corrigan, NYT bestselling author, host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and PBS’s Tell Me MoreBased on the Yale class, a guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, and answering one of life’s most pressing questions: how are we to live?AN OPEN FIELD PUBLICATION FROM MARIA SHRIVERWhat makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale faculty Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one’s own life, for the underlying truth. In Life Worth Living, named after its authors’ highly sought-after undergraduate course, Volf, Croasmun, and McAnnally-Linz chart out this question, providing readers with jumping-off points, road maps, and habits of reflection for figuring out where their lives hold meaning and where things need to change.Drawing from the major world religions and from impressively truthful and courageous secular figures, Life Worth Living is a guide to life’s most pressing question, the one asked of all of us: How are we to live?

Qual o papel da religião no cenário atual? Como os seguidores de Jesus podem manifestar sua fé num contexto de múltiplas religiões e de antipatia à fé cristã? De que maneira os cristãos podem exercer influência positiva sobre a sociedade contemporânea?O renomado teólogo croata Miroslav Volf sistematiza as questões que afetam a presença cristã num mundo cada vez mais secularizado. Tendo como alvo a participação dos cristãos para o bem comum, Volf contribui decisivamente para o debate sobre as implicações da tolerância e da liberdade religiosa no ambiente polarizado de nossos dias.

,Theologie ist wichtig, weil sie von dem handelt, was für das menschliche Leben das Wichtigste ist.' Ich bin kein Theologe, vielleicht nicht einmal ein richtiger Christ. Aber schon als ich die Einleitung zu diesem Buch las, sträubten sich mir buchstäblich die Nackenhaare: Endlich! Endlich fasst die Theologie wieder Mut und beschäftigt sich direkt und unerschrocken mit dem, was wirklich wichtig ist in unserem Leben. Wir finden es nicht in der akademischen Theologie, nicht im sonstigen universitären Betrieb und nicht in einer Kultur, die hin- und herpendelt zwischen dem Alltagsbewältigungsverzweiflungs-modus und dem, was Nietzsche die Suche nach dem erbärmlichen Behagen nennt. Was auch immer die richtigen Antworten sein mögen: Dieses Buch fragt danach, was wir als Menschen sein können, wonach wir streben sollen, was wir hoffen dürfen und wovon wir träumen wollen. Und darauf kommt es an!Hartmut RosaInstitut für Soziologie an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the door to reconciliation? Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion.Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "e;learn to live with one another,"e; but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God.Volf won the 2002 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion for the first edition of his book, Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon, 1996). In that first edition, professor Volf, a Croatian by birth, analyzed the civil war and ';ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia, and he readily found other examples of cultural, ethnic, and racial conflict to illustrate his points. Since September 11, 2001, and the subsequent epidemic of terror and massive refugee suffering throughout the world, Volf revised Exclusion and Embrace to account for the evolving dynamics of inter-ethnic and international strife.