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Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf
Croatian Theologian
Born: Sep 25, 1956
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Related authors: Albert Schweitzer Dietrich Bonhoeffer John Calvin Mary Baker Eddy Paul Tillich Reinhold Niebuhr Thomas Aquinas William Barclay
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb. Miroslav Volf
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I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes. Miroslav Volf
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For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. Miroslav Volf
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Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world. Miroslav Volf
World Understanding About Mending Only Theology
For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians. Miroslav Volf
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Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility. Miroslav Volf
Everyone Honoring Possibility Promise Contains
I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways. Miroslav Volf
God Believe Jews Ways Muslims Understand Pray Same Different Who Different Ways Christians
Faith idles when character shrivels. Miroslav Volf
Faith Character
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity. Miroslav Volf
Understanding Christian Jews Response Muslims Some Trinity Both Misunderstand Accuse Being Groups Believing Fundamentally Christians
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do. Miroslav Volf
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Christians believe that there will be a Judgment Day at the end. And it is my belief that on that day justice will be done and there will be a reconciliation between those who have profoundly injured one another takes place. Miroslav Volf
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I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to. Miroslav Volf
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