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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...

In 1993, my book No Place for Truth; or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? appeared. In that volume, I sought to show how the assumptions of modernity had intruded on the evangelical Church. The loss of theological thinking in the pew, as well as the pulpit, could best be explained, I argued, by the way in which modernity refocuses our interests, displacing the moral by the therapeutic, the divine by the human, truth by intuition, and conviction by technique.
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