Faith Forum with Miroslav Volf: Life Worth Living

What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning is at the crux of a crisis facing Western culture. Miroslav Volf is the Founder and Director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT. The goal of the center, which he still directs, is to promote the practice of faith in all spheres of life through theological research and leadership development. Based on a Yale class, Volf’s book, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, is a guide to defining and then creating a flourishing life, and answering one of life’s most pressing questions: How are we to live? The Reverend Joshua Case will talk with Miroslav Volf about how this crisis can be ameliorated by searching, in one’s own life, for the underlying truth of what matters most.

Miroslav Volf was educated in his native Croatia, United States, and Germany. He earned doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tuebingen, Germany. He has written or edited 15 books and over 70 scholarly articles. His most significant books include Exclusion and Embrace (one of Christianity Today’s 100 most important religious books of the 20th century); After Our Likeness (1998) in which he explores the Trinitarian nature of ecclesial community; Allah: A Christian Response (2011), whether Muslims and Christians have a common God; and A Public Faith: On How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good (2011). He is actively involved in many top-level initiatives concerning Christian-Muslim relations and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum.