Broadcast on March 4, 2004
A long tradition exists asserting that religion is not only intellectually implausible, but socially harmful. This point of view argues that for the sake of peace, religion must be neutralized as a force in civil society. Croatian-American theologian Miroslav Volf makes the counterintuitive proposal that the cure for religious zealotry in our world is not less religion, but more religion -- or rather, stronger and more intelligent practices of faith.
Volf knows Christianity's violent potential by experience. He grew up amidst ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs, which, in the early 1990s after the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia, escalated into a bloody civil war. In Bosnia and Croatia, nearly a quarter of a million people died and two million were left exiled or displaced.
Host Krista Tippett speaks with Miroslav Volf, a theologian who bridges the divide between conservative and liberal Christians in the United State. The conversation took place in Washington D.C. in front of a live audience at the National Cathedral.
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