Faith, Ethnicity and Reconciliation

Yale Professor Miroslav Volf will speak on “Memory, Salvation, and Perdition: Reconciliation and the Ambiguity of Memory” 3:30 p.m. Oct. 14 upstairs in Kerr Student Center on the upper Westmont campus.

The lecture, part of the series on World Christianity and Global Encounters of the 21st Century, is free and open to the public.

The series seeks to draw the attention of students, faculty and interested community members to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world.

Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and post-doctoral degrees from the University of Tübingen.  Volf has published and edited nine books and more than 60 scholarly articles. Most of his work addresses the intersection between faith and aspects of contemporary life, such as economics, politics, and inter-faith relations. His book “Exclusion and Embrace,” in which he reflects on conflicts raging around the question of identity, won the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

For more information, please contact History Professor Chandra Mallampalli at (805) 565-6139. For directions, visit www.westmont.edu.