This week’s White Horse Inn broadcast (Michael Horton, Kim Riddlebarger, Ken Jones, Rod Rosenbladt) features special guest Dr. David Wells and a discussion of Wells’ most recent book, The Courage To Be Protestant. Wells is an insightful observer of today’s evangelical church and its historical trajectory with regard to interaction with the broader culture. With scholarly attention to detail, Wells explains that many pockets of evangelicalism have accommodated the culture in ways that prohibit our being a witness to it. As with all that Wells writes, this book sounds well-researched and very interesting.
The endorsements:
“A stinging indictment of evangelicalism’s theological corruption.”
– Time
“Can serve as a catalyst for evangelical self-examination.”
– Christianity Today
“David F. Wells speaks for a great many commentators inside and outside the evangelical camp when he contends that American evangelicalism is sick at soul . . . His work is being hailed as a bombshell by evangelical leaders who hope it will wake up American evangelicals and alert them to their peril.”
– The Christian Century
Wells urges the church to return to classical spirituality and not to allow the message of that spirituality to be diminished by the cultural habits of the modern world. This argument is one that has recurred throughout history, but wells makes it in plain language accompanied by a straightforward critique of the ways in which, he believes, secular culture’s notions of virtue fall short of Christianity’s.”
– Publisher’s Weekly
“David Wells is one of the most profound Christian thinkers of our time . . . .His insight is keen, his burden righteous, his moral pain deeply felt.”
– Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
“Groundbreaking . . . .The acuity of Wells’s analysis and his self-critical spirit show something of the intellectual prowess and recuperative powers within evangelicalism”
– Religious Studies Review