Tag: Miroslav Volf
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Prosperity: Introduction to the Cycle of Prosperity
Every society, past and present, has an economy. Economies consist of two essential components: People and their environment. Economic questions ultimately come down to a measure of what happens to these two subjects. When I use the term economy in these posts, I refer to society's transforming matter, energy, and information from less useful to…
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A mother’s love is like no other
Niagra Falls Review: A mother's love is like no other Yale theologian Miroslav Volf begins a new book on the topic of giving with a dramatic personal story. … …Volf admits that even though he was deeply, profoundly grateful for the gift of his son, he still had a lingering negative view of a mother…
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Seeking truth in a culture of spin
Capitol Times: Seeking truth in a culture of spin "If we live in a culture of spin, there is a good deal of suspicion about claims of truthfulness, so this is also a culture of suspicion." The words are from Miroslav Volf, theologian from Yale University talking a group of faculty and campus religious workers…
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Scholar says U.S. must help other countries join world community
Vermont Public Radio: Scholar says U.S. must help other countries join world community (Host) A Christian theologian who immigrated to the United States from Croatia in the early 1990's brings his perspective on regional conflicts to St. Michael's College tonight. Miroslav Volf now teaches at Yale Divinity School and will speak about "Identity and Otherness…
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Volf and Fictive Family
I've been working my way through Miroslav Volf's Exclusion and Embrace. In light of my recent Household of God series, I found the passage below interesting. Here Volf is describing how Paul dealt with reconciling God's universality as Lord of all with his culturally particular revelation to the Jews. As he worked it out in…
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Imago Dei and the Material World (Part 2)
Yesterday I presented the "spirit/mind versus material world" dualism within Christianity. I showed how it impacts our understanding of the imago Dei, the image of God. This dualism is not a recent development. It extends back to the beginning of the Church. The Hebrew world knew little of these dualisms, but once the Church entered…
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Volf Embraces Economic Freedom
Traveling around in Emergent conversations, I frequently come across high praise for Miroslav Volf and particularly his book Exclusion and Embrace. (A book that I have "included" in my library but have not yet had the chance to "embrace.") For all the accolades he gets, I wonder if my Emergent friends have also read his…
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Miroslav Volf on Theology of Work
I'm presently reading Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work by Miroslav Volf. The book is divided into two sections. The first section deals with the contemporary world of work, and the second deals with developing Volf's theology of work. I loved these opening paragraphs from the second section (all emphases in the…