THE AUTHOR
VOLF AND... “ON THE
FREEDOM OF A CHRISTIAN”
One of Volf’s inspirations in the exe-
cution of this work was the treatise by
Martin Luther that Biblion translated to
Portuguese in celebration of the 500 years
of Protestant Reformation. Volf covers “On
the Freedom of a Christian” in the final
chapters of the book, praising how Luther
understood redemption and the Christian
status in Christ and to his neighbor. The
Croatian theologian reflects on the impor-
tance of the Christian to live by faith in
Christ, not to himself but to others, in love.
MIROSLAV VOLF
Miroslav Volf (DrTheol, University of
Tübingen) is the Henry B. Wright Professor
of Theology at Yale Divinity School and
founding director of the Yale Center for Faith
and Culture in New Haven, Connecticut.
He has written more than twenty books,
including A Public Faith, Public Faith in
Action, The End of Memory, and Exclusion
and Embrace (winner of the Grawemeyer
Award in Religion and selected among the
one hundred best religious books of the
twentieth century by Christianity Today).
He also examines how God is a key part
of the Christian identity, a subject deeply
connected with our article on the book All
Together Different (see p. #26)
A Liberdade Cristã, our translation of
Martin Luther’s treatise, can be purcha-
sed in print, PDF or eBook format at www.
biblion.pt
www.biblion.pt
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