Miroslav Volf Quotes
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
Volf, Miroslav. Allah: A Christian Response. HarperOne, 2011.
Note the absolutism of the word unbounded.
He was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee where he was accused of being a Communist which he eloquently denied starting with this statement. He died of a heart attack 3 days later. However, most historians agree that White passed classified information to the Russians. He was accused of being a Communist, but there was never any evidence of that. Some people believe that he was a spy for the Russians and committed espionage, but others disagree observing that White was very much his own man and felt that much information that was classified never should have been. White substituted his own judgment, it is believed, about what could be given to the Russians for the security system. He was an admirer of what Russian socialism had accomplished economically, educationally and medically since the 1917 revolution deposing the Czar. Russia had been a valuable military ally, which had taken the brunt of both military and civilian casualties in WWII. White’s economics were certainly not Marxist but very much Keynesian.
Workhouses were facilities for the poor. Many would be run by religious groups who often would condition their services on participation in their religious services. Destitute families would be in workhouses including children and sometimes the religious beliefs of the workhouse operators would be imposed on children of the workhouse. This was an early effort at not only protecting religious rights but separating church and state even in a nation that had an established church.
Miroslav Volf is a Croatian Protestant theologian and public intellectual and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture at Yale University. He previously taught at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in his native Osijek, Croatia (1979–80, 1983–90) and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California (1990–1998).
