Miroslav Volf (Author) Miroslav Volf is Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. A leading religious public intellectual and author of over a dozen books, his Exclusion and Embrace won the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion and was named one of the 100 most influential religious books of the 20th century by Christianity Today. Matthew Croasmun (Author) Matthew Croasmun is Director of the Life Worth Living program at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, Lecturer in Humanities at Yale College, and Faith Initiative Director at Grace Farms Foundation. He is author of The Emergence of Sin and Let Me Ask You a Question, as well as co-author with Miroslav Volf of For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference. Ryan McAnnally-Linz (Author) Ryan McAnnally-Linz is Associate Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He is co-author with Miroslav Volf of Public Faith in Action and has written for The Washington Post's Acts of Faith, Sojourners, and The Christian Century.
CONTENTS
Introduction: This Book Might Wreck Your Life xi
Part 1: Diving In
ONE • What’s Worth Wanting? 3
TWO • Where Are We Starting From? 18
Part 2: The Depths
THREE • Who Do We Answer To? 35
FOUR • How Does a Good Life Feel? 49
FIVE • What Should We Hope For? 62
SIX • How Should We Live? 77
Part 3: Bedrock
SEVEN • The Recipe Test 105
EIGHT • The Really Big Picture 126
Part 4: Facing the Limits
NINE • When We (Inevitably) Botch It 153
TEN • When Life Hurts . . . 172
ELEVEN • . . . And There’s No Fixing It 187
TWELVE • When It Ends 207
Part 5: Back to the Surface
THIRTEEN • It Turns Out We Have Some Work to Do 227
FOURTEEN • Change Is Hard 241
FIFTEEN • Making It Stick 259
Epilogue: What Matters Most 281
Acknowledgments 285
Notes 291
