The courage to be Protestant : reformation faith in today's world / David F. Wells.

At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to t...

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Main Author: Wells, David F. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017.
Edition:Second edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Inside the Evangelical World; The Beginnings; On Selling the Church; Church Is a Business; The End of Christendom; The Emergents' Adventure; Doctrine Goes; The Emergents Emerge; A New Evangelical Chapter; Reformation Then and Now; Differences; Similarities; Church and Gospel; 2. Truth; Our Modernized World; Craft; Community; Family; The Changing World Inside; We Live Alone; Postmodern Selves; What Is Truth?; Christian Truth; Biblical Baseline; Biblical Heartbeat; Truth Engagement; A Better Way Forward; 3. God; Thinking Biblically.
  • EvilSin; The Culture's Answer; Emptiness; Postmoderns Emerge; Nothing Makes Sense; God Dies, We Die; Reinvented Selves; Being Private; The Inside God; What Does Nearness Mean?; Misunderstanding God's Nearness; The Outside God; God Above; God as Holy; And So ...?; There Is a Law; There Is Sin; There Is a Cross; There Is Conquest; Knowing God; 4. Self; In Pursuit of the Self; The Nation Signs On; Virtues to Values; Virtues; Values; Character to Personality; Personality Emerges; Self-Marketing; The Commerce of Images; The Fallout; Nature to Self; Nature; Nature Dies; Self Emerges; Rights.
  • LossGuilt to Shame; Shame; Guilt; Healing Ourselves; A Different Universe; Rupture; Reconciliation; It's Not Just about Me; About the Salt; Where We Stand; 5. Christ; Christian and Pagan Paths; From Below; The Facts; The Church's Failure; The New but Old Spirituality; Secular but Spiritual; How Spiritualities Work; Nature; Sin; Speaking; From Above; Christ's Descent; A New Age Dawns; In Christ Alone; Does This Preach?; Christ's Rule Now; 6. Church; Trouble in the House; Middling Standards; Be Appealing!; Losing the Church; Discovering the Church Again; Visible and Invisible; What Is Hidden.
  • Forget Rethinking the ChurchDistance and Impact; Marks of Authenticity; Word of God; SUFFICIENT; DOCTRINE; PREACHING; Sacraments; Discipline; Who Builds the Church?; God Is Sovereign; We Are Captive; Means of Growth; Let God Be God over the Church; Index.