Miroslav Volf (HRV)

has been Professor at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Osijek (Croatia) during the civil war in former Yugoslavia. After a time as professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, he is Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Professor of Systematic Theology at the Yale Divinity School. Professor Volf’s recent books include Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace(2006), Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon 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; Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace(Zondervan 2005). A member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Professor Volf was involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican Council for Promotion of Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (most recently in Christian-Muslim dialogue). A native of Croatia, he regularly teaches and lectures at the Faculty of Theology in Osijek (Croatia).