The Cost of Ambition: How Striving to Be Better Than Others Makes Us Worse

by Miroslav Volf

Many people believe that ambition, understood as striving to be better than others, improves us as individuals and advances our whole 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--S ren Kierkegaard, John...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587434814
• ISBN13: 9781587434815
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Brazos Press
• Length: 192 Pages