Miroslav Volf

Quick Facts

Full Name	Miroslav Volf
Occupation	Theologian
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1956(1956-09-25)
Age	68
Birthplace	Osijek
Country	Croatia
Birth City	Osijek-Baranja
Horoscope	Virgo

Miroslav Volf Biography

Miroslav Volf is one of the most popular and richest Theologian who was born on September 25, 1956 in Osijek, Osijek-Baranja, Croatia. Miroslav Volf was conceived in Osijek (Croatia), on September 25, 1956. His family moved to Novi Sad (Serbia), at the age of five. There, his father was a minister for the small Pentecostal congregation. Volf grew up in that community and lived double on the margins. Osijek was dominated by Roman Catholicism, while Novi Sad was dominated by Serbian Orthodox. In both towns, Protestants were a small minority, and Pentecostals were considered “a minority of the minority”. Yugoslavia’s political system was heavily influenced by Marxist ideology. Christian ministers were especially suspect and closely monitored. Volf was raised in a faith-filled home and was exposed to a Christianity that was different from the dominant culture. Volf later said that he didn’t have the luxury to “entertaining faith as a collection of propositions that I do or don’t assent too”. Volf rebelled against the faith of his parents, particularly in his teens. He had a quiet conversion in his twenties. He was the only Christian student at his high school. This forced him to explain how Christianity makes sense intellectually, and how it is a life-saving way of living. This was the start of his journey to become a theologian. This experience gave him the conviction that it was possible to live and work on the margins in a faith that is itself a result of being born on the margins.

Volf started his teaching career in 1979 as a lecturer at Fuller’s Croatian university in systematic theology. While he was unable to teach regularly due to his compulsory military service and doctoral studies, he still taught intensive courses at the institution. Volf resumed full-time teaching after he had completed his doctoral dissertation. From 1984 until 1991 he served as professor of systematic theology at the Evangelical-Theological Seminary, which had by then moved to his native Osijek.

In 1985 Volf became a member of the Pentecostal side of the official Roman Catholic and Pentecostal dialogue. The theme of the dialogue for the five years that followed was communio, and, together with Peter Kuzmič, Volf wrote the first position paper. In the final year of the dialogue (1989), along with Hervé Legrand, then a professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris, on the Catholic side, he was the main drafter of the final document (“Perspectives on Koinonia”). This intense ecumenical engagement led Volf to explore the relation between the church as a community and the Trinity, and this topic became the subject of his Habilitationschrift.

I Znam da sunce ne boji se tame: Teoloske meditacije o Santicevu vjerskom pjesnistvu. Osijek: Izvori, 1986.

Volf was doing his doctoral research in Croatia and also teaching in Croatia. He worked at the Croatian Christian magazine Ivori redesigning and rebranding the magazine that his father, the General Secretary of Pentecostal Church, Yugoslavia, was currently publishing. He was the magazine’s editor (1984-1989) and co-editor (1979-84) as well as its editor (1984-1989). Volf regularly wrote feature articles and editorials. These articles outlined the themes and positions that he would use in academic publications. Some of these texts dealt with issues at the intersection of faith and culture. These included those that dealt with religious aspects of Aleksa Santic’s poetry. They were also the seeds for his first book. It was co-authored with Marko Zivkovic, a Croatian painter, and entitled I znam da Sunce ne Boji se tame [The Sun Doesn’t Fear Darkness]. Some texts included theological interpretations and commentary on biblical texts, including 1 Peter. Volf’s interest in culture and in theological interpretation was a key feature of his theological work. He also committed to writing for the church, not the academy.

Miroslav Volf Net Worth

Miroslav Volf is one of the richest Theologian from Croatia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Miroslav Volf 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Miroslav Volf, a Croatian Protestant Theologian and intellectual was born September 25, 1956. He is the Henry B. Wright Professor and Director of Yale’s Center for Faith and Culture. He was previously a teacher at the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek in Croatia (1979-80, 1983-1990, and 1990-90), and Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena (California) (1990-1998).

Volf studied philosophy and classical Greek at the University of Zagreb and theology at Zagreb’s Evangelical-Theological Seminary. In 1977, he graduated summa cum merite with a thesis about Ludwig Feuerbach. In 1977, he began his M.A. He graduated in 1979 summa cum merite from Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California. He was exposed to liberation and early feminist theories, which increased his awareness of the public importance of faith. He continued to study philosophy at the University of Belgrade during the year in Yugoslavia that spanned between his doctoral and master’s studies.

From 1980 to 1985 Volf pursued a doctorate at the University of Tübingen, Germany, under the supervision of Jürgen Moltmann (with compulsory military service back in Yugoslavia interrupting his studies from October 1983 to October 1984). For most of this time he had an ecumenical scholarship from the Diakonisches Werk and lived in the famous Evangelisches Stift (whose former inhabitants included Johannes Kepler, Ludwig Feuerbach, Friedrich W. J. Schelling, and Georg W. F. Hegel). His dissertation was a theological engagement with Karl Marx’ philosophy of labor, and pursuing this project led him to study both German idealist philosophy and English political economy. He graduated again summa cum laude, and the University of Tübingen awarded him the Leopold Lukas Nachwuchswissenschaftler Preis for his dissertation.

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In 1991, Volf took a position as an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller, succeeding his former teacher at that institution, Paul King Jewett. He remained in this position until 1997 when Fuller appointed him to a full professorship. Throughout this time, he continued to teach in Osijek as his full-time contract with Fuller included provisions for teaching two courses every year in Croatia—an act of generosity on Fuller’s part aimed toward rebuilding theological education in Eastern Europe after the end of the Cold War. In 1998 Volf took the position that he still holds, that of Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. Nashville: Abingdon, 1996.