Looks at how the Evangelical movement is working within American secular culture
Since its founding at Harvard in 1992, The Veritas Forum has provided a place for the university world to explore the deepest questions of truth and life.
In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning ...
As Philip Rieff has pointed out , however , all this brave talk about the self and about its potential is actually evidence of a " disordering " of the self . 11 and it follows from this that any religion based on the self must itself ...
David F. Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts, here challenges evangelicalism with a disturbing analysis of its present condition.
Building on years of research and teaching, experienced author and theologian David Wells offers a remedy for evangelicalism’s superficial theology and weightless conception of God: a journey to discover the paradoxical nature of his ...
The inevitable outcome to this is the emergence of a new kind of person , what Rieff calls " psychological man . " Rieff roots this transformation in the influence of Freud , but Freud would have little influence in the wider culture if ...
As she slowly but inexorably uncovers the long hidden secrets that will place her in grave danger, the story mounts to a searing suspense-filled courtroom climax.
"It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant." These words begin this bold new work -- the culmination of David Wells's long-standing critique of the evangelical landscape. But to live as a true Protestant -- well, that's another matter.
A Passion for Truth, written by one of evangelicalism's outstanding younger theologians, seeks to show that the movement has in its heritage excellent resources to engage the scholarly debates of the day.
In his 2008 bookThe Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic faith, defined by the Reformationsolas(grace, faith, and Scripture alone) and by a high regard for doctrine.