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Theology in the News

No Place for Complacency

David Wells on The Courage to Be Protestant.

Interview by Collin Hansen | posted 5/16/2008 09:22AM

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What is your next project?

I am working with a skilled Hollywood director to turn my last book into a film project with DVDs and study guides for the churches. I have been preoccupied for some time with trying to understand what has happened to evangelical faith in the modernized West. This book summarizes the five main themes about which I have been writing: truth, God, self, Christ, and church. I hope that we can now speak creatively and constructively to these issues.

Collin Hansen is a CT editor-at-large and the author of Young, Restless, Reformed: A Journalist's Journey with the New Calvinists.

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See also "Positively Protestant | Let's uncover the original meaning of the word" by David Neff.

Previous Theology in the News columns are available on our site.

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lawson o.wyatt

Posted: May 22, 2008 8:12 PM

The scriptural name "The Body of Christ" should surfice for identifying The Church in the world. And this includes the 'store front" group that meets whereever. Now a body any body acts according to how the Head directs Christian is the only name I chose. Please spare me "prostatant' "LIBERAL" CONSERTATIVE OR WHATEVER. A regular part of my prayer- praying is that every where we be delivered from Religion by whatever name . Shalom

Johann

Posted: May 21, 2008 7:27 AM

Protestant? What's that? I didn't think they were still around, since no one has used that word in 35 years. Everyone is "Christian" nowadays, as if every garish megachurch or storefront "worship center" or nondenominational denomination that hangs out its shingle is so genuine and faithful a representative of Jesus Christ himself, that it wold be beneath them to admit that they are actually a manmade denomination, probably started within the last 15 years. Please people- just be honest with the world.

evangelical orthodoxy

Posted: May 20, 2008 5:18 AM

reformation truths is just another orthodoxy. Now it is important to follow the bible but not a as a legalistic cookbook. Instead, we should search the bible for the living Jesus so that he can personally teach us love for God and love for fellow men. When we are delighted with God and delighted with fellow men (and women) then we have the full gospel, through Jesus Christ. I am always worried about evangelicals focussing on knowledge and knowledge of the scriptures as if the following of the bible can be done as a "cookbook". No amount of head-knowledge can save you; just as no amount of orthodox ritual can save you. Only the God who surprises even the educated can save!

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