Losing Our Virtue

by Wells, David F.

• ISBN13: 9780802846723
• ISBN10: 0802846726
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Available now for the first time in paperback, Losing Our Virtue offers a bold critique of the moral disintegration taking place in contemporary society and its reflection in today's evangelical church. Continuing the series begun with David Wells's No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland, this acclaimed volume urges the church to regain its moral weight and become a missionary of truth once more to our relativistic postmodern world.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
A Tale of Two Spiritualities	p. 21
Can the Church Be Reformed?	p. 21
Spirituality	p. 30
Embarrassed by Modernity	p. 46
The Playground of Desire	p. 53
Rebels and Restrainers	p. 53
Obeying the Unenforceable	p. 62
Bowling Alone	p. 65
Control	p. 75
On Saving Ourselves	p. 81
Surviving and Assembling Ourselves	p. 81
From Character to Personality	p. 96
From Nature to Self-consciousness	p. 104
The New Healers	p. 110
The Bonfire of the Self	p. 117
From Guilt to Shame	p. 120
On Feeling Ashamed	p. 133
Lost in Moral Space	p. 140
Contradictions	p. 147
From Amnesia to Memory	p. 147
Honor and Shame	p. 164
Faith of the Ages	p. 179
Whatever Happened to Sin?	p. 180
Whatever Happened to the Church?	p. 196
The Courage to Believe	p. 205
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 223
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