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In Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision, theologian David Wells argues that the Church is in danger of losing its moral authority to speak to a culture whose moral fabric is torn. Although much of the Church has enjoyed success and growth over the past years, Wells laments a “hollowing out of evangelical conviction, a loss of the biblical word in its authoritative...

itself to be unimaginably messy.11 The construction of a society made efficient by technology, productive by capitalism, organized around cities, and driven by self-interest has not left people free of all constraints so that they can, without inhibition and regret, pursue their own happiness. Quite the reverse. If there was something to be said for replacing arbitrary power with the exercise of reason and violence with the legal state, the Enlightenment nevertheless grossly underestimated how many
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