Hosts Erin VanLaningham and John Barton speak with Miroslav Volf on the most recent episode of NetVUE’s podcast Callings. Miroslav is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School and the founder and director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, as well as one of the most influential Christian theologians of this generation. His latest book, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most (co-authored with Matthew Croasmun and Ryan McAnnally-Linz), is based on the “Life Worth Living” course that they teach at Yale University.
In this conversation, Miroslav shares his deep commitment to exploring “what it means to be a human being” and how to live a meaningful life, while resisting individualism’s misguided focus on an authentic self. The need to ask deep questions about who we are and the life worth living, he says, is both cultural and Christian. Thus, we must nurture the “interior landscape of the soul,” which is not separate from our external lives and actions yet “has its own beauty.”
Additionally, Miroslav reflects on his own life as well as on important vocational themes such as “deep hunger,” the challenge of privilege, and pedagogies of exploration.
Click here to listen to the episode featuring Miroslav Volf titled “On a Life Worth Living.”
Stephanie L. Johnson is the editor of Vocation Matters.