For the Life of the World, Miroslav Volf
For the Life of the World, Miroslav Volf
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For the Life of the World
Theology That Makes a Difference

Author: Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun

Narrator: Matthew Croasmun, David Cochran Heath

Unabridged: 5 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/17/2019

Synopsis

The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today's pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life--for ourselves, our neighbors, and the planet as a whole--is neglected in our universities, our churches, and our culture at large. Although we increasingly have technology to do almost anything, we have little sense of what is truly worth accomplishing. In this provocative new contribution to public theology, world-renowned theologian Miroslav Volf (named "America's New Public Intellectual" by Scot McKnight on his Jesus Creed blog) and Matthew Croasmun explain that the intellectual tools needed to rescue us from our present malaise and meet our new cultural challenge are the tools of theology. A renewal of theology is crucial to help us articulate compelling visions of the good life, find our way through the maze of contested questions of value, and answer the fundamental question of what makes life worth living.

About Miroslav Volf

Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systemic Theology at Yale Divinity School and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture in New Haven, Connecticut. He has written more than twenty books, including A Public Faith, Public Faith in Action, Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World, and Exclusion and Embrace (winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Religion and selected as among the one hundred best religious books of the twentieth century by Christianity Today).

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on April 07, 2019

This is the third book I’ve read of Miroslav Volf, I’ve got two unread on my shelf, and looking forward to more. I’m not an academic, theologian, scholar, or even a pastor, but I love theology. If you’re a nerdy Christian like me, you might like this, too. For me the gold in this book is in the last......more

Goodreads review by Makayla on February 23, 2022

My goodness, Miroslav Volf has a way with words......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 11, 2019

Summary: Contends that for theology to make a difference it must address what it means for human beings to flourish in the world "in light of God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ." Miroslav Volf grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia. Matthew Croasmun cut his teeth in ministry in planting a church. For both,......more

Goodreads review by Scott on July 18, 2021

I read this a couple of years ago when it was published. I was very excited to read it. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a let down, though I had trouble articulating why I felt that way. Two years later, I re-read it to feel, similarly, ambivalent. I agree with much of Volf and Croasmun's diagnosis o......more

Goodreads review by Bob on June 02, 2019

If I had known this was a book deliberately written for professional theologians, I probably would have passed it by. But I'm glad I didn't. This is a book I will cherish and probably re-read. It's all good, but chapter 6, the last chapter, is really exceptional. There the authors lay out their visi......more

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