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No Place for Truth : Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? by David F. Wells [Wells, David F.] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Has something indeed happened to evangelical theology and to evangelical churches? According to David Wells, the evidence indicates that evangelical pastors have abandoned their traditional role as ministers of the Word to become therapists and "managers of the small enterprises we call churches." Along with their parishioners, they have abandoned genuine Christianity and biblical truth in favor of the sort of inner-directed experiential religion that now pervades Western society. Specifically, Wells explores the wholesale disappearance of theology in the church, the academy, and modern culture. Western culture as a whole, argues Wells, has been transformed by modernity, and the church has simply gone with the flow. The new environment in which we live, with its huge cities, triumphant capitalism, invasive technology, and pervasive amusements, has vanquished and homogenized the entire world. While the modern world has produced astonishing abundance, it has also taken a toll on the human spirit, emptying it of enduring meaning and morality. Seeking respite from the acids of modernity, people today have increasingly turned to religions and therapies centered on the self. And, whether

Who reads No Place for Truth : Or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology??

Author

David F. Wells [Wells, David F.]

Publisher

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802807472

Category

history

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Fiction

Rating

4.17 / 5 (540 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14