Quotes by Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf (b. 1956) — Systematischer Theologe, Universitätsprofessor und Autor · Protestantisch (Anglikanisch / Episkopal, freikirchlich geprägt) · Kroatien / USA
Miroslav Volf (* 1956) ist ein aus Kroatien stammender evangelischer Theologe und Professor für Systematische Theologie an der Yale Divinity School in den USA. Bekannt wurde er durch sein vor dem Hintergrund der Jugoslawienkriege verfasstes Werk „Ausschluss und Umarmung“ sowie seine Arbeiten zu Versöhnung und Vergebung, wobei seine Positionen zum christlich-islamischen Dialog konservativ-evangelikale Kritik auslösten. Bibellesern bietet seine Theologie fundierte Impulse für gelebte Feindesliebe, den Umgang mit Schuld und das Zeugnis der Versöhnung in polarisierten Gesellschaften.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Justice & Commitment, Ethical Questions, Guilt & Forgiveness, Faith & Trust, Grace & Redemption, Humility & Pride, Love
Quotes by Miroslav Volf
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
Miroslav Volf
To give to God is to take from God's right hand and put that very thing back into God's left hand.
Miroslav Volf
The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.
Miroslav Volf
Faith is the way we as receivers relate appropriately to God as the giver. It is empty hands held open for God to fill.
Miroslav Volf
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.
Miroslav Volf
God doesn't give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that's at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit of others.
Miroslav Volf
The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.
Miroslav Volf
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion.
Miroslav Volf
The true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.
Miroslav Volf
Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense.
Miroslav Volf
By embracing the outcast, Jesus underscored the sinfulness of the persons and systems that cast them out.
Miroslav Volf
Love properly understood is God, the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.
Miroslav Volf
The practice of non-violence requires a belief in divine vengeance.
Miroslav Volf
Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith.
Miroslav Volf
Unaware that our culture has subverted our faith, we lose a place from which to judge our own culture.
Miroslav Volf
Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.
Miroslav Volf
Sin is here the kind of purity that wants the world cleansed of the other rather than the heart cleansed of the evil that drives people out by calling those who are clean unclean and refusing to help make clean those who are unclean.
Miroslav Volf
The cure against Christian violence is not less of the Christian faith, but, in a carefully qualified sense, more of the Christian faith. I don't mean, of course, that the cure against violence lies in increased religious zeal; blind religious zeal is part of the problem.
Miroslav Volf
Sources: gettysburg.edu, thegospelcoalition.org, stephenmcalpine.com, firstthings.com
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