World Faiths and Globalization

At Fuller’s 2014 Payton Lectures, Miroslav Volf reflected on the major world religions in the context of increasing globalization.

“None of [the world religions] is unconcerned with flourishing in the ordinary life.”

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Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf on World Faiths and Their Common Features

Mark Labberton considers the complexities that passion, power, and fear bring to interfaith conversations—and questioned how love might also play a part.

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Miroslav Volf and Mark Labberton

Response | Mark Labberton on the Challenges of Interfaith Engagement

Mark Labberton considers the complexities that passion, power, and fear bring to interfaith conversations—and questioned how love might also play a part.

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Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf on Globalization’s Effect on World Faiths

Miroslav Volf reflects on how world faiths—with their visions of human flourishing—meet systems of power and wealth in the midst of globalization.

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Marguerite Shuster, Oscar García-Johnson, Mignon Jacobs, and Miroslav Volf

Response | Marguerite Shuster, Oscar García-Johnson, Mignon Jacobs on World Faiths

Marguerite Shuster, Oscar García-Johnson, Mignon Jacobs discussed themes of colonization, human flourishing, and the public arena as they relate to the major world faiths.

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Miroslav Vold and N.T. Wright

Miroslav Volf and N. T. Wright on the Future of the Church

Miroslav Volf and N. T. Wright spoke about their faith journeys, the Christian life, the state of the church, and more in a conversation with Mark Labberton.

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Voices on Scripture (Rare Book Room)

These lectures were given at Fuller’s School of Theology’s 2014 Payton Lectures, “World Faiths and Globalization: a Christian Perspective.” At the time of these recordings, Miroslav Volf was director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.