God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading DreamsDavid 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 the modern world. In God in the Wasteland Wells continues his work on a biblical antidote to the modernity that has invaded today's church. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictContinuing the examination of evangelical theology he started in No Place for Truth; or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology (Eerdmans, 1993), Wells expands on the previous work by offering a ... Read full review
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Wonderful yard of mirrored balls! We can see ourselves (evangelicals) in the distorted images made out of the world's shiny "new" technologies and ideologies. The Biblical view of the world never held truer. Our focus must not continue to be distracted by the images but to rest on the sovereign, Holy God.
Contents
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From the Outside In | 23 |
Historical Developments | 125 |
Boundaries | 130 |
God the Holy | 133 |
The Stranger in Our World | 137 |
God the Knower | 145 |
The Centrality of Truth | 149 |
God on the Inside | 152 |
The Sacred Canopy | 153 |
The Alternative to God | 35 |
The Scarecrow World | 37 |
but Not of It | 39 |
The Human Center | 44 |
In a Postmodern Framework | 46 |
Godlets and Godding | 50 |
Manufactured in America | 56 |
Clerics Anonymous | 60 |
The Religious Economy | 63 |
On Growing the Church | 68 |
The New Vision | 72 |
Workshops of Recovery | 77 |
Engineering the Spiritual | 84 |
The Weightlessness of God | 88 |
Designer Religion | 93 |
Uprooted from the World | 95 |
Pastiche Personalities | 97 |
Intellectuals | 101 |
The Conquest of Reality | 102 |
From Kant to Rorty | 104 |
The Insurrection in Theology | 107 |
The Therapy of Pride | 111 |
The Saliency of God | 113 |
The Caging of God | 114 |
The Danger in God | 115 |
The Outside God | 118 |
God Who Is Above | 122 |
A Peeling Canvass | 154 |
The Tragic | 159 |
The Death of Progress | 160 |
The View from Outside | 163 |
The Big Picture | 166 |
Gods Hand in History | 167 |
Curing the Worlds Ills | 170 |
The View from Inside | 174 |
The Evangelical Version | 176 |
What God Is Doing | 181 |
The Coming Generation | 186 |
An Extended Family | 188 |
The Vision of Theology | 191 |
Ships in the Night | 194 |
The Enchanted World | 196 |
The World in a Lens | 203 |
The Maze of Modernity | 205 |
The Sum of It All | 210 |
Speaking with a Different Voice | 214 |
An Embarrassment of Being | 216 |
The Disguise of Faith | 220 |
A Strange Confidence | 223 |
Appendix | 228 |
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God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams D.F. Wells No preview available - 1994 |
God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams David F. Wells No preview available - 1994 |
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