Books written by Miroslav Volf
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Public Faith in Action: How to Engage with Commitment, Conviction, and Courage
Johnson, James Turner. “Just War, as It Was and Is.” First Things, January 2005. http://www.firstthings.com/article/2005/01/just-waras-itwas-and-is. Johnson provides an insightful exploration of changes in the just-war tradition in ...
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For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference
This is a brave and bracing proposal to rethink theology's role and relevance by recovering its original concern with the fundamental question of human existence: How do we live a flourishing life with others in this world, the home of God?
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For the Life of the World (Theology for the Life of the World): Theology That Makes a Difference
Colm Luibheid (New York: Paulist Press, 1987), 68–69. Teresa of Ávila, The Book of Her Life 10.1, in The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez, rev. ed., vol. 1 (Washington, DC: Institute ...
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The Home of God (Theology for the Life of the World): A Brief Story of Everything
6:4): “YHWH our God, YHWH is one.” Bauckham, Testimony of the Beloved ... The two other times concern the central theological and christological claim of mutual indwelling. 30. ... See Kilby, God, Evil, and the Limits of Theology; cf.
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Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities
This compelling collection gathers together articles previously published in "The Christian Century" from 1996 to 2008.
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A Common Word: Muslims and Christians on Loving God and Neighbor
Discusses the issues brought forth from the editorial "A common word between us and you," which calls for Muslims and Christians around the world to work towards universal peace.
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Do We Worship the Same God?: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Dialogue
This volume brings Jewish, Christian, and Muslim philosophers and theologians together to answer this question, offering rare insight into how representatives of each religion view the other monotheistic faiths.
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For the Life of the World: Theology That Makes a Difference
This is a brave and bracing proposal to rethink theology's role and relevance by recovering its original concern with the fundamental question of human existence: How do we live a flourishing life with others in this world, the home of God?
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Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts ...
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Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
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.
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God's Life in Trinity
The future of history , Moltmann consistently argues , is the coming God , the new creation , God's Sabbath and indwelling in reality . The reverence for life must center on this reality shorn of apocalyptic dread , moral perfectionism ...
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Free of Charge
Miroslav Volf draws from popular culture as well as from a wealth of literary and theological sources, weaving his rich reflections around the sturdy frame of Paul's vision of God's grace and Martin Luther's interpretation of that vision.
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After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity
In After Our Likeness, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. He seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and give community its due.
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Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life
In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian ...
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Public Faith in Action: How to Think Carefully, Engage Wisely, and Vote with Integrity
The book is unapologetically convicted, but it makes room for the global realities that demand different responses and creates space for Christians to come to different prudential conclusions. Here is an antidote to polarization.
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Work in the Spirit: Toward a Theology of Work
Although there have been many popular books and church documents on on the Christian understanding of work, this is the first scholarly effort to articulate a developed Protestant theology of work.
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The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
This second edition includes an appendix on the memories of perpetrators as well as victims, a response to critics, and a James K. A. Smith interview with Volf about the nature and function of memory in the Christian life.
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The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything
' The indwelling of God is the future of the earth, indeed of the whole cosmos. This is the exact opposite of the modern destruction of the earth and of life. This is the 'ecology' of God.
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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation
Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as...
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A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
Instead he offers profound counsel about how faith-based public advocacy can promote the common good in our increasingly pluralistic world. This important book is packed with wisdom!