The Cost of Ambition (with Miroslav Volf)

The Cost of Ambition (with Miroslav Volf)

Author: Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae November 25, 2025 Duration: 47:44
While God has made us to be ambitious, there can be a deep spiritual cost for striving to be better than others. Miroslav Volf is one of the leading public theologians. In this episode, based on his book "The Cost of Ambition," Dr. Volf explains how the teachings of Jesus and Paul offer a means for how we can aim for excellence without being plagued by our own sense of inferiority. Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and is the founder and ...

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