Miroslav Volf

Miroslav 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 was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and post-doctoral degrees from the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Volf has written or edited more than twenty books and over one hundred scholarly articles, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, Sojourners, and several other outlets, including NPR’s Speaking of Faith (now On Being with Krista Tippett) and Public Television’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.

A member of the Episcopal Church in the USA and the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Volf has been involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (including the Muslim and Christian “A Common Word” initiative) and is a participant in the Global Agenda Council on Values of the World Economic Forum. 

Volf regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, and across North America. He has given over thirty prestigious lectureships at universities around the world, including the Dudleian Lecture at Harvard University, the Chavasse Lectures at Oxford University, the Waldenstroem Lectures at Stockholm School of Theology, the Gray Lectures at Duke University, the Stob Lectures at Calvin University, and the Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham. In May 2025, Volf will deliver the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, UK.