Theologian Miroslav Volf, a Yale Divinity School professor and a Century editor at large, has won the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award that honors works which contribute to the understanding of the relationship between God and humankind

Christian Century, Dec 19, 2001

* Theologian Miroslav Volf, a Yale Divinity School professor and a CENTURY editor at large, has won the $200,000 Grawemeyer Award that honors works which contribute to the understanding of the relationship between God and humankind. The annual prize is presented in April by Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville.

The Croatian-born Volf won for his book Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation. The book was a result of Volf's teaching in Croatia during the bloody ethnic wars of the 1990s, when his entire seminary in Osijek, Croatia, had to flee the fighting. He holds degrees from the Evangelical Theological Faculty in Croatia, as well as Fuller Theological Seminary in California and the University of Tubingen in Germany.