{"product_id":"no-place-for-truth-or-whatever-happened-to-evangelical-theology-9780802807472","title":"No Place for Truth: or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?","description":"\u003cp\u003eHas something indeed happened to evangelical theology and to evangelical churches? According to David Wells  the evidence indicates that evangelical pastors have abandoned their traditional role as ministers of the Word to become therapists and \"managers of the small enterprises we call churches.\" Along with their parishioners  they have abandoned genuine Christianity and biblical truth in favor of the sort of inner-directed experiential religion that now pervades Western society.  Specifically  Wells explores the wholesale disappearance of theology in the church  the academy  and modern culture. Western culture as a whole  argues Wells  has been transformed by modernity  and the church has simply gone with the flow. The new environment in which we live  with its huge cities  triumphant capitalism  invasive technology  and pervasive amusements  has vanquished and homogenized the entire world. While the modern world has produced astonishing abundance  it has also taken a toll on the human spirit  emptying it of enduring meaning and morality.  Seeking respite from the acids of modernity  people today have increasingly turned to religions and therapies centered on the self. And  whether consciously or not  evangelicals have taken the same path  refashioning their faith into a religion of the self. They have been coopted by modernity  have sold their soul for a mess of pottage. According to Wells  they have lost the truth that God stands outside all human experience  that he still summons sinners to repentance and belief regardless of their self-image  and that he calls his church to stand fast in his truth against the blandishments of a godless world.  The first of three volumes meant to encourage renewal in evangelical theology (the other two to be written by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. and Mark Noll)  No Place for Truth is a contemporary jeremiad  a clarion call to all evangelicals to note well what a pass they have come to in capitulating to modernity  what a risk they are running by abandoning historic orthodoxy. It is provocative reading for scholars  ministers  seminary students  and all theologically concerned individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647689252917,"sku":"ByrdShop_080280747X","price":22.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802807472.jpg?v=1781697014","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/no-place-for-truth-or-whatever-happened-to-evangelical-theology-9780802807472","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}