Prominent theologian Miroslav Volf, controversial for organizing the “Loving God and Neighbor Together” overture to Muslims in 2007, shared his interfaith views at evangelical Gordon College in early June. His 2007 manifesto, endorsed by over 100 prominent U.S. evangelicals and Mainline Protestants, responded to an initiative by Muslims leaders. But it sparked some criticism for apologizing for the Crusades and the U.S. War on Terror while minimizing differences between Christianity and Islam.
“We increasingly live very much in an intermingled world…in which faiths are numerically growing and are politically assertive,” Volf said more recently at the “Christians in Political Science Conference” at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts on June 2nd 2012. Volf is a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School who recently authored a book called Allah: A Christian Response. In his book, Volf controversially argues that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and that one can maintain Muslim practices and still be a Christian.
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