ERB friend and contributor John Pattison recently had the opportunity interview Miroslav Volf, and he has posted the transcript of the interview on the Slow Church blog.
John talks with Miroslav mostly about his recent book:
A Public Faith:
How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good
Miroslav Volf.
Paperback: Brazos Press, 2011.
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[ERB editor] Chris [Smith] and I recently collaborated on an article about the political role of the local church for the upcoming February/March issue of Neue Magazine. In preparation for writing the article, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Miroslav Volf about politics, the local church, promoting human flourishing, and his most recent book, A Public Faith: How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good. Dr. Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is the author of numerous books, including Allah: A Christian Response (2011) and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (1998). His book Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996) is a classic work. It won the prestigious University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award. It was also included, less prestigiously, in Besides the Bible as one of the 100 books every Christian should read.
The Neue article should be on newsstands any day. In the meantime, here is a transcript of my interview with Dr. Volf.
How did this new book, A Public Faith, come about? Did it arise out of a single original moment?
The book has been a long time in gestation. Indeed, the individual pieces, though written with the unity in mind, have been written across a relatively wide swath of time – some 15 years if I recall correctly, and one even older than that. I have been thinking about these issues for quite some time. A Public Faith was the result.
[ Read the full interview with Miroslav Volf on the Slow Church blog… ]
C. Christopher Smith is the founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books. He is also author of a number of books, including most recently How the Body of Christ Talks: Recovering the Practice of Conversation in the Church (Brazos Press, 2019). Connect with him online at: C-Christopher-Smith.com
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