The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power

Mayfield, D. L.

ISBN 10: 0830845984 / ISBN 13: 9780830845989

Verlag: IVP, 2020

Cover boards are slightly bending/warping. Dust jacket shows minimal external wear. Otherwise book is very clean, intact, and unmarked! Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0003889181

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>2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award

Publishers Weekly starred review.

Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves?

In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape our own choices, and the ways those choices affect our neighbors. Where did these values come from? How have they failed those on the edges of our society? And how can we disentangle ourselves from our culture's headlong pursuit of these values and live faithful lives of service to God and our neighbors?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

D. L. Mayfield is a writer and activist who has spent over a decade working with refugee communities in the United States. Her work has been published in McSweeney's, The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Christian Century, Sojourners, Vox, and the Englewood Review of Books. She is also the author of Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary on Rediscovering Faith. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections ...
Verlag: IVP
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket.