The cost of ambition : how striving to be better than others makes us worse
(2025)
By:
Volf, Miroslav
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW 248.4/VOLF,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Brazos Press, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2025]
© 2025
© 2025
DESCRIPTION
xii, 194 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781587434815, 1587434814 :, 1587434814, 9781587434822, 1587434822, 9781587434815
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"O Solomon, I have outdone you! -- The worry of comparison (Kierkegaard) -- Satan's aspiration (Milton) -- "Outdo one another in showing honor" (Paul) -- "What do you have that you did not receive?" (Paul) -- From Jesus to Genesis: On biblical discomfort with striving for superiority
"An internationally renowned theologian argues that rather than improving us as individuals and as a society, our ambition to be better than others actually diminishes us"--