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The Cost of Ambition

How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse

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Many people believe that ambition, understood as striving to be better than others, improves us as individuals and advances society. But what if the opposite is true?In The Cost of Ambition, world-renowned theologian and award-winning author Miroslav Volf argues that striving for superiority actually makes us worse.Working his way backward in time, Volf explores what three influential thinkers ... Read more

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Many people believe that ambition, understood as striving to be better than others, improves us as individuals and advances society. But what if the opposite is true?In The Cost of Ambition, world-renowned theologian and award-winning author Miroslav Volf argues that striving for superiority actually makes us worse.Working his way backward in time, Volf explores what three influential thinkers
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Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated

A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation

by Miroslav Volf ...

Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the ... Read more

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Life in the twenty-first century presents a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Is there any hope of embracing our enemies? Of opening the
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The Cost of Ambition

How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse

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New York Times bestselling author Miroslav Volf on why striving for superiority is at odds with the Christian faithChristianity Today 2025 Book Award Winner (Popular Theology)**"[A] smart take on a world obsessed with forward motion."--**Publishers WeeklyMany people believe that ambition--striving to be better than others--improves us and advances society.... ... Read more

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New York Times bestselling author Miroslav Volf on why striving for superiority is at odds with the Christian faithChristianity Today 2025 Book Award Winner (Popular Theology)**"[A] smart take on a world obsessed with forward motion."--**Publishers WeeklyMany people believe that ambition--striving to be better than others--improves us and advances society....
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Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace

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We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile?A deeply personal yet profoundly thoughtful book, Free of Charge explores these questions--and the further ... Read more

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We are at our human best when we give and forgive. But we live in a world in which it makes little sense to do either one. In our increasingly graceless culture, where can we find the motivation to give? And how do we learn to forgive when forgiving seems counterintuitive or even futile?A deeply personal yet profoundly thoughtful book, Free of Charge explores these questions--and the further
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Glimmerings

Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian

by Miroslav Volf, Christian Wiman ...

From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf—two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all.Whether you’re seeking something to believe in or no longer feel at home in your traditions, the spiritual search can be deeply lonely.In Glimmerings, leading ... Read more

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From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf—two world-renowned scholars exchange letters on the problems of faith today and the presence of divine love that persists through it all.Whether you’re seeking something to believe in or no longer feel at home in your traditions, the spiritual search can be deeply lonely.In Glimmerings, leading
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Life Worth Living

A Guide to What Matters Most

by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, Ryan McAnnally-Linz ...

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFinancial Times' "Best books of 2023 — Health & Wellness""Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be."--Kelly Corrigan, NYT bestselling author, host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and PBS’s Tell Me MoreBased on ... Read more

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**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFinancial Times' "Best books of 2023 — Health & Wellness""Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be."--Kelly Corrigan, NYT bestselling author, host of Kelly Corrigan Wonders and PBS’s Tell Me MoreBased on
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A Public Faith

How Followers of Christ Should Serve the Common Good

by Miroslav Volf ...

Covering such timely issues as witness in a multifaith society and political engagement in a pluralistic world, this compelling book highlights things Christians can do to serve the common good. Now in paperback.Praise for the cloth editionNamed one of the "Top 100 Books" and one of the "Top 10 Religion Books" of 2011 by Publishers Weekly"Accessible, wise guidance for people of all faiths."- ... Read more

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Covering such timely issues as witness in a multifaith society and political engagement in a pluralistic world, this compelling book highlights things Christians can do to serve the common good. Now in paperback.Praise for the cloth editionNamed one of the "Top 100 Books" and one of the "Top 10 Religion Books" of 2011 by Publishers Weekly"Accessible, wise guidance for people of all faiths."-
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The End of Memory

Remembering Rightly in a Violent World

by Miroslav Volf ...

Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Christianity and CultureHow should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together?We live in an age that insists that past wrongs—genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgotten. But Miroslav ... Read more

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Winner of the Christianity Today Book Award in Christianity and CultureHow should we remember atrocities? Should we ever forgive abusers? Can we not hope for final reconciliation, even if it means redeemed victims and perpetrators spending eternity together?We live in an age that insists that past wrongs—genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices—should never be forgotten. But Miroslav
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For the Life of the World

Theology That Makes a Difference

by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun ...

Series series Theology for the Life of the World
Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended****Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today's pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life--for o... ... Read more

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Christianity Today 2020 Book Award (Award of Merit, Theology/Ethics)Outreach 2020 Recommended****Resource of the Year (Theology and Biblical Studies)The question of what makes life worth living is more vital now than ever. In today's pluralistic, postsecular world, universal values are dismissed as mere matters of private opinion, and the question of what constitutes flourishing life--for o...
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Theology—Descent into the Vicious Circles of Death

On the Fortieth Anniversary of Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God

Edited by Zoran Grozdanov ...

In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans. The authors engage with the prevailing culture of ethnic and religious exclusivism within their context and present ... Read more

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In this succinct, inviting volume, four Balkan theologians probe their contextual ways with the theology of Jurgen Moltmann, whose classic The Crucified God influenced novel theological approaches around the globe, most recently the emerging postwar Christian theology in the Balkans. The authors engage with the prevailing culture of ethnic and religious exclusivism within their context and present
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Practicing Theology

Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life

Edited by Miroslav Volf, Dorothy C. Bass ...

In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian life. The work of thirteen first-rate theologians from several cultural and Christian perspectives, these informed and informative essays explore the ... Read more

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In a time when academic theology often neglects the lived practices of the Christian community, this volume seeks to bring balance to the situation by showing the dynamic link between the task of theology and the practices of the Christian life. The work of thirteen first-rate theologians from several cultural and Christian perspectives, these informed and informative essays explore the
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The Home of God

A Brief Story of Everything

by Miroslav Volf, Ryan McAnnally-Linz ...

Narrated by George W. Sarris ...

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11 hours 54 min

We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe, in the anxious nationalism awaiting immigrants in their destinations, in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities, in the fractured households of families, and in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more ... Read more

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We live in the midst of a crisis of home. It is evident in the massive uprooting and migration of millions across the globe, in the anxious nationalism awaiting immigrants in their destinations, in the unhoused populations in wealthy cities, in the fractured households of families, and in the worldwide destruction of habitats and international struggles for dominance. It is evident, perhaps more
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