The following conversation between Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the 2016 Templeton Prize Laureate, and Prof. Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University Divinity School, was recorded on April 4, 2016 at the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life at New York University. The subject of their conversation was religion’s place in a religiously violent world.
Religion’s Place in a Religiously Violent World – A conversation between Rabbi Sacks and Prof Miroslav Volf
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