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Miroslav Volf Biography

Miroslav Volf (born September 25, 1956) is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual who has been described as "one of the most celebrated theologians of our day." Volf currently serves as the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. Volf previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia (1979–80, 1983–90) and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998).

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If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

Christian, Enemy, Faith, Love You, Unchristianed

To triumph fully, evil needs two victories, not one. The first victory happens when an evil deed is perpetrated; the second victory, when evil is returned. After the first victory, evil would die if the second victory did not infuse it with new life.

Evil, Infuse, Needs, Two, Victories, Victory

God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

Giver, God, God Is Love, God Love, Utterly

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

Believe, Christian, Christians, Different, God, Ways

Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place.

Believe, Christian, Christians, Justice, Takes

Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

Christian, God, Lonely, New Relationship, Private, Triune

There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.

America, Leader, Leaders, Political

Christ's indwelling presence has freed us from exclusive orientation toward ourselves and opened us up in two directions: toward God, to receive the good things in faith, and toward our neighbor, to pass them on in love.

Christ, Faith, Love, Neighbor, Opened, Two

Every word and every deed, every thought and every gesture, even the simple act of paying attention can be a gift and therefore an echo of God’s life in us.

Attention, Echoes, Paying, Simple, Word

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

Desire, Fonts, Goal, Love, Ultimate, Understood

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

Community, Enemy, Humans

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Absolute, Hospitality, Nonviolence, Violence, Way

If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.

Believe, Christian, Neighbor, Somebody, Thinking

The significance of the crucifixion is not only what God does for us; consistently throughout the New Testament the crucifixion is portrayed as the pattern that we are to follow. It is a model of social behavior toward the other as well as a statement about what God has done for us.

Doe, Social Behavior, Done, Follow, Consistently

If we can exit a relationship, pressure to reconcile lessens; if we must live with those who have wronged us, we are pushed to reconcile.

Exit, Lessens, Pressure, Pushed, Reconcile, Relationship

Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.

Christian, Believe, Understanding, Muslims, Christians, Fundamentally

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

Believe, Christian, Command, Independent, Toward

There is no space in which worship should not take place, no time when it should not occur, and no activity through which it should not happen.

Space, Worship, Should, Activity, Place

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Good Things, Happens, Help, Helping, Sense, Substitutes

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

Condemn, Differences, Fault, Forgiving God, Justice

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