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Above All Earthly Pow'rs
Christ In A Postmodern World
In our postmodern world, every view
has a place at the table but none has
the final say. How should the church
confess Christ in today’s cultural
context?
Above All Earthly Pow’rs, the fourth
and final volume of the series that
began in 1993 with No Place for Truth,
portrays the West in all its
complexity, brilliance, and emptiness.
As David F. Wells masterfully depicts
it, the postmodern ethos of the West
is relativistic, individualistic,
therapeutic, and yet remarkably
spiritual. Wells shows how this
postmodern ethos has incorporated into
itself the new religious and cultural
relativism, the fear and confusion,
that began with the last century’s
waves of immigration and have
continued apace in recent decades.
Wells’s book culminates in a critique
of contemporary evangelicalism aimed
at both unsettling and reinvigorating
readers. Churches that market
themselves as relevant and palatable
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. By
placing a premium on marketing rather
than truth, the evangelical church is
in danger of trading authentic
engagement with culture for worldly
success.
Welding extensive cultural analysis
with serious theology, Above All
Earthly Pow’rs issues a prophetic call
that the evangelical church cannot
afford to ignore.
- Type: Paperback
- Pages: 353
- ISBN: 9780802824554
- SKU: 9780802824554
- Publisher: Eerdmans