The Myth of the American Dream : Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power
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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?
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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?
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Product details
- Hardback | 216 pages
- 140 x 216 x 22mm | 454g
- 05 May 2020
- InterVarsity Press
- Inter-Varsity Press,US
- Illinois, United States
- English
- 0830845984
- 9780830845989
- 1,242,722
Table of contents
Introduction: The Myth of the American Dream
Part One: Affluence
1. The Walls of Rome
2. Who Is My Neighbor?
3. Getting Curious
4. Low, Low Prices
5. How Not to Be a Millionaire
6. Lament for the Land
7. True Generosity
Part Two: Autonomy
8. Liberty
9. The Names We Give
10. Fresh Paint
11. What Is Education For?
12. Paying Attention to My Neighbors
13. The Hospitality of Exiles
Part Three: Safety
14. The Odds
15. Mary, or We Can Never Be Safe
16. The Ship of the Doomed
17. Good Seeds
18. Waking Up Sad
19. The Happiest Place on Earth
Part Four: Power
20. Empire
21. Billboards
22. The Pioneer Mind
23. Signposts
24. Monuments and Memorials
25. Learning from Exiles
Epilogue: How to Live in Empire
Acknowledgments
Notes
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Part One: Affluence
1. The Walls of Rome
2. Who Is My Neighbor?
3. Getting Curious
4. Low, Low Prices
5. How Not to Be a Millionaire
6. Lament for the Land
7. True Generosity
Part Two: Autonomy
8. Liberty
9. The Names We Give
10. Fresh Paint
11. What Is Education For?
12. Paying Attention to My Neighbors
13. The Hospitality of Exiles
Part Three: Safety
14. The Odds
15. Mary, or We Can Never Be Safe
16. The Ship of the Doomed
17. Good Seeds
18. Waking Up Sad
19. The Happiest Place on Earth
Part Four: Power
20. Empire
21. Billboards
22. The Pioneer Mind
23. Signposts
24. Monuments and Memorials
25. Learning from Exiles
Epilogue: How to Live in Empire
Acknowledgments
Notes
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Review quote
"This trenchant Christian critique of American exceptionalism provides an essential, passionate interpretation of the ideals of egalitarianism." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review
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About D. L. Mayfield
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.
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