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ABOVE ALL EARTHLY POWERS HB

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  • ISBN 9781844741069
  • Author WELLS DAVID
  • Pub Date 18/11/2005
Publisher IVP BOOKS UK
'Above All Earthly Pow’rs', the fourth and final volume of the set that began in 1993 with No Place for Truth, paints a picture of the West...
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'Above All Earthly Pow’rs', 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 postmodernism’s roots in the last century’s 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 offence. 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. Wells’s 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 Pow’rs' will grip pastors, educators, and all serious readers concerned about the fate of evangelical Christianity.