Losing our virtue : why the church must recover its moral vision
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Losing our virtue : why the church must recover its moral vision
W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c1998
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- pbk
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: alk. paper ISBN 9780802838278
Description
From the award-winning author of No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland comes a new blockbuster critique of American culture and the church. Focusing this time on the fractured moral vision of society at large and its reflection in today's evangelical church, David Wells brings his bold cultural analysis into the realms of ethics and anthropology.Wells first discusses how the particular spirituality of today's evangelical church is causing it to lose its moral bearings. He also explores the wider dynamic at work in contemporary society between license and law, the chief casualty of which is the moral life. Next he exposes the secular notion of salvation as heralded by our most trusted gurus -- advertisers and psychotherapists. He also considers the contemporary view of the self, showing how the concepts of guilt and sin have been replaced with empty psychological shame. Finally, Wells examines the contradiction between the way we view ourselves in the midst of our own culture and the biblical view of persons as created beings. Based on this discussion, Wells lays out an apologetic that is peculiarly fitted to engagement with the postmodern world.Can the church truly recover its moral character enough to make a difference in a society whose moral fabric is rent? Wells believes it can. In fact, with postmodernity now so heavily ladened with its own cynicism, he believes that no time in this century has been more opportune for the Christian faith -- if the church can muster the courage to regain its moral weight and become a missionary of truth once more to a foundering world.
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pbk ISBN 9780802846723
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Available now for the first time in paperback, Losing Our Virtue offers a bold critique of the moral disintegration taking place in contemporary society and its reflection in today's evangelical church. Continuing the series begun with David Wells's No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland, this acclaimed volume urges the church to regain its moral weight and become a missionary of truth once more to our relativistic postmodern world.
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