Losing Our Virtue
by Wells, David F.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-01-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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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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