{"product_id":"above-all-earthly-powrs-christ-in-a-postmodern-world-9780802829023","title":"Above All Earthly Pow'rs: Christ In A Postmodern World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn our postmodern world  every view has a place at the table but none has the final say. How  as Christian faith adjusts to a new culture  should the church confess Christ? \"Above All Earthly Powrs \" the fourth and final volume of the set that began in 1993 with \"No Place for Truth \" paints a picture of the West in all its complexity  brilliance  and emptiness. As David Wells masterfully depicts it  the postmodern ethos of the West is relativistic  individualistic  therapeutic  and yet remarkably spiritual. Wells unabashedly locates American postmodernisms roots in the last centurys waves of immigration  waves that  for all their diversity  have brought with them numerous new religions and a cultural relativism born out of confusion and a fear of offense. Wells also carefully differentiates between intellectual and popular postmodernism; while few Americans read Foucault or Derrida  nearly everyone is subject to the permeating flood of TV ads. Wellss book culminates in a critique of contemporary evangelicalism aimed at both unsettling and reinvigorating readers. Churches that market themselves as relevant to consumption-oriented postmoderns are indeed swelling in size. But they are doing so  Wells contends  at the expense of the truth of the gospel  as the trappings they adopt come laden with theological consequences. By placing a premium on marketing  the evangelical church is in danger of selling authentic engagement with culture for worldly success. Welding extensive cultural analysis with a formidable theological contribution  \"Above All Earthly Powrs\" will grip pastors  educators  and all serious readers concerned about the fate of evangelical Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648042623029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802829023","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802829023.jpg?v=1781707485","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/above-all-earthly-powrs-christ-in-a-postmodern-world-9780802829023","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}