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The Courage to Be Protestant: Reformation Faith in Today’s World (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic Protestant faith, defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone)...

The constant cultural bombardment of individualism, in the absence of a robust theology, meant that faith that had rightly been understood as personal earlier on was now becoming merely individualistic. It was self-focused and consumer-oriented. It was a faith in search of comfort and assurance in the midst of all the anxieties created by modern life. But this comfort and assurance were all about the private interior world. More than that, they were about therapy and rarely about truth. That was
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