In my first post, I indicated that a key question to address would be what “achievement” is. This post is my first attempt to define achievement. The goal is to understand what we mean by the concept in twenty-first century Western society, with a view to approach the Scriptures for a biblical understanding of the…

As I dig into my year-long discussion of a theology of achievement, I will be developing several conversation partners—both Christian and secular. In this post, I begin to survey the literature out there that relates to the theme.[1] Most of the literature does not address the theme of “achievement” directly—or, at least, it doesn’t use…