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• catalog abstract "David F. Wells's award-winning book No Place for Truth - called "a stinging indictment of evangelicalism's theological corruption" by TIME magazine - woke many evangelicals to the fact that their tradition has slowly but surely capitulated to the values and structures of modernity. In God in the Wasteland Wells continues his trenchant analysis of the cultural corruption now weakening the church's thought and witness with the intent of getting evangelicals to rethink their relationship to the "world." Wells argues that the church is enfeebled in part because it has lost its sense of God's sovereignty and holiness. "The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today," says Wells, "is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, his grace is too ordinary, his judgment is too benign, his gospel is too easy, and his Christ is too common." God has become weightless to the extent that the church no longer allows him to shape its character, outlook, and practice. Evangelicals have become heavily invested in the mind-set of modernity - a mind-set that Wells correlates with the biblical concept of the "world." They have become enamored of advanced management and marketing techniques, have blurred the distinctions between Christ and culture, and have largely abandoned their traditional emphasis on divine transcendence in favor of an emphasis on divine immanence. In doing so, they have produced a faith in God that is of little consequence to those who believe. An extensive survey of students at seven evangelical theological seminaries - the results of which are included in this book - indicates that the next generation of evangelical leaders is as caught up in these trends as the laity. Arguing that the church's diminished appetite for truth will not be restored without repentance and a fresh encounter with the holy God, Wells makes a compelling case for urgently needed reform in the evangelical church. Without such reform, he says, evangelical faith will be lost in and to the modernity that has invaded the church.".
• catalog contributor b6579868.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "Arguing that the church's diminished appetite for truth will not be restored without repentance and a fresh encounter with the holy God, Wells makes a compelling case for urgently needed reform in the evangelical church. Without such reform, he says, evangelical faith will be lost in and to the modernity that has invaded the church.".
• catalog description "David F. Wells's award-winning book No Place for Truth - called "a stinging indictment of evangelicalism's theological corruption" by TIME magazine - woke many evangelicals to the fact that their tradition has slowly but surely capitulated to the values and structures of modernity. In God in the Wasteland Wells continues his trenchant analysis of the cultural corruption now weakening the church's thought and witness with the intent of getting evangelicals to rethink their relationship to the "world." Wells argues that the church is enfeebled in part because it has lost its sense of God's sovereignty and holiness. "The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today," says Wells, "is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. ".
• catalog description "His truth is too distant, his grace is too ordinary, his judgment is too benign, his gospel is too easy, and his Christ is too common." God has become weightless to the extent that the church no longer allows him to shape its character, outlook, and practice. Evangelicals have become heavily invested in the mind-set of modernity - a mind-set that Wells correlates with the biblical concept of the "world." They have become enamored of advanced management and marketing techniques, have blurred the distinctions between Christ and culture, and have largely abandoned their traditional emphasis on divine transcendence in favor of an emphasis on divine immanence. In doing so, they have produced a faith in God that is of little consequence to those who believe. An extensive survey of students at seven evangelical theological seminaries - the results of which are included in this book - indicates that the next generation of evangelical leaders is as caught up in these trends as the laity. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.".
• catalog description "Prologue -- I. An accident in history -- 1. The accidental revolution -- World cliche culture -- Costs and benefits -- 2. Flight from the center -- II. An accident of faith -- 1. From the inside out -- 2. From the outside in -- Strangers and aliens -- III. The alternative to God -- 1. The scarecrow world -- In the world ... -- ... but not of it -- The human center -- In a post-modern framework -- Godlets and Godding -- 2. Manufactured in America -- IV. Clerics anonymous -- 1. The religious economy -- 2. On growing the church -- 3. Ecclesiastical barnacles -- The new vision -- Big business -- Workshops of recovery -- 4. Engineering the spiritual -- V. The weightlessness of God -- 1. Designer religion -- Uprooted from the world -- Pastiche personalities -- 2. Intellectuals -- The breath of the night wind -- The conquest of reality -- From Kant to Rorty -- The insurrection in theology -- The therapy of pride -- 3. The saliency of God -- The caging of God -- The danger in God -- VI. The outside God -- 1. God who is above -- Biblical texts -- Historical development -- 2. Boundaries -- 3. God the holy -- The irrelevance of holiness -- The stranger in our world -- 4. God the knower -- The crisis of authority -- The centrality of truth -- VII. God on the inside -- 1. The sacred canopy -- A peeling canvass -- The tragic -- The death of progress -- 2. The view from outside -- Christ the interpreter -- The big picture -- God's hand in history -- Curing the world's ills -- 3. The view from inside -- Bartering for the real -- The evangelical version -- What God is doing -- VIII. The coming generations -- 1. An extended family -- 2. The vision of theology -- 3. Ships in the night -- 4. The enchanted world -- 5. The world in a lens -- 6. The maze of modernity -- 7. The sum of it all -- IX. Speaking with a different voice -- 1. An embarrassment of being -- Post-modern pomp -- The disguise of faith -- 2. A strange confidence.".
• catalog extent "x, 278 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "God in the wasteland.".
• catalog identifier "0802837735 (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "God in the wasteland.".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans,".
• catalog relation "God in the wasteland.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "230/.046 20".
• catalog subject "BR1642.U5 W44 1994".
• catalog subject "Christianity and culture.".
• catalog subject "Evangelicalism United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Theology History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Prologue -- I. An accident in history -- 1. The accidental revolution -- World cliche culture -- Costs and benefits -- 2. Flight from the center -- II. An accident of faith -- 1. From the inside out -- 2. From the outside in -- Strangers and aliens -- III. The alternative to God -- 1. The scarecrow world -- In the world ... -- ... but not of it -- The human center -- In a post-modern framework -- Godlets and Godding -- 2. Manufactured in America -- IV. Clerics anonymous -- 1. The religious economy -- 2. On growing the church -- 3. Ecclesiastical barnacles -- The new vision -- Big business -- Workshops of recovery -- 4. Engineering the spiritual -- V. The weightlessness of God -- 1. Designer religion -- Uprooted from the world -- Pastiche personalities -- 2. Intellectuals -- The breath of the night wind -- The conquest of reality -- From Kant to Rorty -- The insurrection in theology -- The therapy of pride -- 3. The saliency of God -- The caging of God -- The danger in God -- VI. The outside God -- 1. God who is above -- Biblical texts -- Historical development -- 2. Boundaries -- 3. God the holy -- The irrelevance of holiness -- The stranger in our world -- 4. God the knower -- The crisis of authority -- The centrality of truth -- VII. God on the inside -- 1. The sacred canopy -- A peeling canvass -- The tragic -- The death of progress -- 2. The view from outside -- Christ the interpreter -- The big picture -- God's hand in history -- Curing the world's ills -- 3. The view from inside -- Bartering for the real -- The evangelical version -- What God is doing -- VIII. The coming generations -- 1. An extended family -- 2. The vision of theology -- 3. Ships in the night -- 4. The enchanted world -- 5. The world in a lens -- 6. The maze of modernity -- 7. The sum of it all -- IX. Speaking with a different voice -- 1. An embarrassment of being -- Post-modern pomp -- The disguise of faith -- 2. A strange confidence.".
• catalog title "God in the wasteland : the reality of truth in a world of fading dreams / David F. Wells.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".