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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...

its followers to find in their moral accomplishments and character formation a basis for laying claim to God’s salvation. On the Protestant side, therefore, matters of moral principle were discussed differently. These were seen as the outcome to a knowledge of God, which was given independently of any internal moral achievement, through the Word and by the Holy Spirit. Godliness, it was argued, combined the right beliefs about God and his Christ (2 Tim. 3:16), a reverential attitude before him (2
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