The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-Lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
by David F. Wells
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It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. These words begin this bold work-the culmination of David Wells' long-standing critique of the evangelical landscape. But to live as a true Protestant-that's another matter. This book is a jeremiad against new versions of Evangelicalism-the Marketing and Emergent Churches-and 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 historic, show more classical Evangelicalism is 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 their tendency to try to win parishioners as consumers rather than worshipers, advertising the most palatable environment rather than trusting the truth to be attractive. He takes particular issue with the most popular evangelical movement in recent years-the Emergent Church. Emergents, he says, are postmodern, postconservative, and postfoundational, embracing a less absolute understanding of the authority of scripture than traditionally held. 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. show lessTags
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David F. Wells is distinguished senior research professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts, and an ordained Congregationalist minister. His many previous books include Above All Earthly Pow'rs, Losing Our Virtue, God in the Wasteland, and No Place for Truth.
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- The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-Lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
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- The courage to be Protestant: truth-lovers, marketers, and emergents in the postmodern world
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- 後現代社會中熱愛真理的教會, 行銷型教會與新興教會
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- 2008
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