Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
26.01.1999
Verlag
William B Eerdmans Publishing CoSeitenzahl
242
Maße (L/B/H)
23,1/15,3/1,9 cm
Gewicht
322 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8028-4672-3
In Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision, theologian David Wells argues that the Church is in danger of losing its moral authority to speak to a culture whose moral fabric is torn.
Although much of the Church has enjoyed success and growth over the past years, Wells laments a "hollowing out of evangelical conviction, a loss of the biblical word in its authoritative function, and an erosion of character to the point that today, no discernible ethical differences are evident in behavior when those claiming to have been reborn and secularists are compared." The assurance of the Good News of the gospel has been traded for mere good feelings, truth has given way to perception, and morality has slid into personal preference. Losing Our Virtue is about the disintegrating moral culture that is contemporary society and what this disturbing loss means for the church. Wells covers the following in this bold critique:- how the theologically emptied spirituality of the church is causing it to lose its moral bearings
- an exploration of the wider dynamic at work in contemporary society between license and law
- an exposition of the secular notion of salvation as heralded by our most trusted gurus--advertisers and psychotherapists
- a discussion of the contemporary view of the self
- how guilt and sin have been replaced by empty psychological shame
- an examination of the contradiction between the way we view ourselves in the midst of our own culture and the biblical view of persons as created, moral beings
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