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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...

of “relevance,” is what is partitioning the evangelical world into its three segments. Again and again the issue that has emerged, as a result, is whether evangelicals will build their churches sola Scriptura or sola cultura, to use the formulation Os Guinness proffered in Prophetic Untimeliness. Actually, to be quite honest, the question is raised by only a few on the sidelines, and in many evangelical churches the question barely even makes sense. It sounds a bit like someone wondering about Manny
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