The Courage to be Protestant: Truth-Lovers, Marketers And Emergents In The Post-Modern World - Softcover

Wells, David F

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844742784 ISBN 13: 9781844742783

Publisher: IVP, 2008

Synopsis

It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. With these words, David Wells opens his bold challenge to the modern church.
In this volume, Wells offers the summa of his critique of the evangelical landscape, as well as a call to return to the historic faith, one defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone), and to a reverence for doctrine.
Wells argues that the historic, classical evangelicalism is one marked by doctrinal seriousness, as opposed to the new movements of the marketing church and the emergent church. He energetically confronts the marketing communities and what he terms their sermons-from-a-barstool and parking lots and après-worship Starbucks stands . He also takes issue with the most popular evangelical movement in recent years - the emergent church. For Wells, many emergents are postmodern, postconservative and postfoundational, embracing a less absolute understanding of the authority of Scripture than he maintains is required.
'The Courage to be Protestant' is a dynamic argument for the courage to be faithful to what biblical Christianity has always stood for, thereby securing hope for the church's future.

About this title

About the Author

DAVID F. WELLS is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of historical and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. An ordained Congregationalist minister, he is also the author of more than a dozen books.

Review

Preaching Magazine, Books Every Preacher Should Read (2009)

Calvin Theological Journal
“An importantly different book.
 
Theological Book Review
“The Courage to Be Protestant is an engaging and interesting book and deserves to be read by anyone interested in the current state and development of American evangelicalism.”
 
Choice
“Recommended.”
 
Bibliotheca Sacra
“Fascinating and alarming. . . . [Wells’] warning should be taken seriously by all thinking Protestants.”
 
Reformed Theological Review
“In an age that is awash with the desire to be relevant and post-confessional, David Wells’ book is a necessary and brave corrective.”
 

Edition details

• Publisher: IVP
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844742784
• ISBN 13: 9781844742783
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256