Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
Written by Miroslav Volf
Narrated by Tom Perkins
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In this perceptive, deeply personal, and beautifully written book, a leading theologian sheds light on how religions and globalization have historically interacted and argues for what their relationship ought to be. Recounting how these twinned forces have intersected in his own life, he shows how world religions, despite their malfunctions, remain one of our most potent sources of moral motivation and contain within them profoundly evocative accounts of human flourishing. Globalization should be judged by how well it serves us for living out our authentic humanity as envisioned within these traditions. Through renewal and reform, religions might, in turn, shape globalization so that it can be about more than bread alone.
Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, in the United States, and in Germany, and received his Ph.D. and postdoctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tübingen (Germany). He has written or edited more than 20 books and more than 100 scholarly articles. Among his most significant books are the present Exclusion and Embrace, winner of the Grawemeyer Prize for Religion and one of the 100 most important religious books of the 20th century according to Christianity Today; Flourishing: Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World (2016), and (with Matthew Croasmun) For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference (2019).
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