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The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth Lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World

David F. Wells (Author)

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Binding: Hardcover
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Eerdmans
ISBN#: 9780802840073

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Description: “It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant.” These words open this bold new text--the summa of David Wells’s critique of the evangelical landscape--leaving no doubt that Wells is issuing a challenge to the modern church.

This book is a broadside against “new” versions of evangelicalism as well as a call to return to the historic faith, one defined by 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. Emergents are postmodern and postconservative and postfoundational, embracing a less absolute, understanding of the authority of Scripture than Wells 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 the Author
David F. Wells is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. An ordained Congregational minister, he is the author of many other books, including the four titles that The Courage to Be Protestant builds on: No Place for Truth, God in the Wasteland, Losing Our Virtue, and Above All Earthly Pow'rs.
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Author: Jonathan Erdman
I don't see anything "bold" or "new" in this description. It looks like more of the same: a defense of the antiquated old order.

Emergingness is not the answer, but neither is romanticizing the good 'ole days. Yes, those wonderful days back when Reformers were running around drowning fellow believers and debating the most irrelevant form of doctrine as though the whole world depended on it. If only we could go back to the days when church and state were one and you could burn a brother or sister if they didn't submit themselves to your superior dogma! Yes, friends, those were the days! May God speed their return! Author: Jeff Wright
Quite a response from someone who has merely read the description but not the book itself. Perhaps it would be better to actually read the book before declaring it a romanticizing of the good old days.

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