Miroslav Volf
Dr. Miroslav Volf is Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. A native of Croatia, he has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. His research spans topics such as human work, the church, the Trinity, violence, reconciliation, gift-giving, and memory of wrongs. His book Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation (Abingdon Press, 1996) received the 2002 Grawemeyer Award.
He was the lead author of the Christian response to "A Common Word Between Us and You," the historic open letter signed by 138 Muslim scholars, clerics, and intellectuals, released in October 2007. The "Yale response," as this response to "A Common Word" has become known, was published in November 2007 as a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, signed by more than 130 prominent Christian leaders and scholars.