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Has something indeed occurred to evangelical theology also to evangelical churches? Regarding to David Wells, the evidence implies that evangelical pastors have abandoned their traditional role as ministers of the term to become therapists and "managers of the tiny businesses we call churches". Along with their parishioners, they have abandoned genuine Christianity and biblical truth and only the type of inner-directed experiential religious beliefs that now pervades Western society. Specifically, Wells explores the low cost disappearance of theology in the cathedral, the academy, and modern culture. Western culture all together, argues Wells, has been transformed by modernity, and the cathedral has simply absent with the move. The brand new environment where we live, with its huge metropolitan areas, triumphant capitalism, invasive technology, and pervasive amusements, has vanquished and homogenized the whole world. While the modern world has produced astonishing abundance, it has also taken a toll on the individuals soul, emptying it of enduring meaning and morality. Seeking rest from the acids of modernity, customers have increasingly turned to religions and treatments centered on the self. And, whether consciously or not, evangelicals have taken the same way, refashioning their faith into a religious beliefs of the self. They are co-opted by modernity, have sold their soul for a mess of pottage. Regarding to Wells, they have lost the fact God stands outside all individuals experience, that he still summons sinners to repentance and belief no matter their self-image, and that he phone calls his cathedral to stand fast in his truth up against the blandishments of a godless world. The first of three volumes designed to encourage renewal in evangelical theology (the other two to be compiled by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. and Tag Noll), No Place for Fact is a modern day jeremiad, a clarion call to all or any evangelicals to notice well just what a pass they have come to in capitulating to modernity, just what a risk these are running by abandoning ancient orthodoxy. It really is provocative hearing for scholars, ministers, seminary students, and all theologically concerned individuals.
