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The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-Lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World is unavailable, but you can change that!

“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—well, that’s another matter. This book is a jeremiad against “new” versions of evangelicalism—marketers and emergent—and a summons to return to the historic faith, defined by the Reformation solas...

Emergents, as I shall call them, are about deconstruction. This is an important point. They have not sought to be movement builders because that, in a way, would defy their essential posture of pulling away from everything else. They are skeptical of power and its structures. They are not pulling in toward each other either. They are simply talking, and a few are writing books. What they are against is often clearer than what they are for. However, they are united in thinking that classical evangelicalism,
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