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The first lecture of the 2019 Cadbury Lectures on the theme of 'The World as God's Home'. Delivered by Professor Miroslav Volf in Birmingham on 28 May 2019. Professor Mirsolav Volf is the Henry B Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the Founder and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He was educated in his native Croatia, the United States, and Germany, earning doctoral and post-doctoral degrees (with highest honors) from the University of Tbingen, Germany. He has written or edited more than 20 books and over 100 scholarly articles. The prestigious lecture series take place on three consecutive evenings in Birmingham city centre. As the unprecedented levels of migration and displacement illustrate, many people are without a home today. Tied to this social homelessness is an existential homelessness. For moderns, the world should be our one and only home, but we are alienated from it: not at home on the planet, not at home in our countries, cities, and dwellings, estranged even from ourselves. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/cadburylectures