Above All Earthly Pow'rs
by Wells, David F.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-08-15
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary
The deflation of the Enlightenment worldview and rise of the post-modern mood over the last decades has altered the relation of Christian faith to culture. How, in this new situation, should the church confess Christ? "Above All Earthly Powers" paints a picture of the West in all its complexity, brilliance, and emptiness. As David F. Wells masterfully depicts it, the postmodern ethos is relativistic, individualistic, therapeutic, and yet remarkably spiritual. By placing a premium on marketing rather than truth, the evangelical church is in danger of selling authentic engagement with culture for worldly success. Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture. "Above All Earthly Powers" issues a prophetic call to the evangelical church that it cannot afford to ignore.
Author Biography
David F. Wells is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and an ordained Congregational minister
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Front Lines | p. 5 |
| Christ and Context | p. 6 |
| Miracles of Modern Splendor | p. 13 |
| Outside In, Inside Out | p. 17 |
| The Heretical Persuasion | p. 25 |
| The Modern Revolution | p. 31 |
| Gone with the Wind | p. 33 |
| Hollow Chests | p. 48 |
| Miracles of (Human) Power | p. 52 |
| Postmodern Rebellion | p. 60 |
| The Withering of the Enlightenment Soul | p. 62 |
| Modernity to Postmodernity | p. 62 |
| The Postmodern Outlooks | p. 67 |
| No (Comprehensive) Worldview | p. 74 |
| On Having a Worldview | p. 74 |
| Consumer Culture/Postmodern Culture | p. 75 |
| The Way Things Were | p. 79 |
| No Truth | p. 84 |
| No Purpose | p. 88 |
| Migrations, the Banquet of Religion, and Pastiche Spirituality | p. 91 |
| Pizza, Bagels, and Fish on Fridays | p. 96 |
| Enchiladas, Chow Mein, and Soul Food | p. 104 |
| The New Spiritual Quest | p. 109 |
| The Third Stream | p. 109 |
| The House or the Journey? | p. 119 |
| Christ in a Spiritual World | p. 125 |
| The New Spiritual Yearning | p. 127 |
| An Ancient Spirituality | p. 136 |
| A Spirituality of Postmodernity | p. 145 |
| The Empty Landscape | p. 146 |
| "My Own Little Voice" | p. 149 |
| It's About Me | p. 152 |
| Confrontation, Not Tactics | p. 155 |
| Fragmented, Not Innocent | p. 164 |
| Public, Not Private | p. 168 |
| Personal, Not Impersonal | p. 175 |
| Christ in a Meaningless World | p. 177 |
| The Culture of Nothingness | p. 178 |
| Bewilderment | p. 178 |
| The Black Hole | p. 181 |
| Suicide to Snickers | p. 184 |
| Fear, Anxiety, and Dread | p. 188 |
| When the Future Dies | p. 191 |
| This Side of the Sun | p. 194 |
| God Whispers in the Night | p. 199 |
| God Reaches Down | p. 203 |
| The Presence of Eternity | p. 203 |
| Majestic Condescension | p. 212 |
| Grace Triumphant | p. 218 |
| Christ in a Decentered World | p. 233 |
| An Open Future | p. 234 |
| From Experience to Philosophy | p. 234 |
| From Freedom to Danger | p. 238 |
| From Providence to Bad Luck | p. 240 |
| An Open Theology | p. 242 |
| Libertarian and Autonomous | p. 248 |
| Autonomous and Decentered | p. 249 |
| Christ the Center | p. 251 |
| Creation's Center | p. 251 |
| The Church's Center | p. 258 |
| Megachurches, Paradigm Shifts, and the New Spiritual Quest | p. 263 |
| Why Do Church Differently? | p. 268 |
| The New Seeker | p. 269 |
| Evangelicalism Falters | p. 269 |
| The New Marketplace | p. 270 |
| The New Social Environment | p. 274 |
| Old Fears | p. 277 |
| Business as Usual | p. 283 |
| Growing the Church | p. 288 |
| Gated (Spiritual) Communities | p. 288 |
| No Entry | p. 292 |
| Birds of a Feather | p. 293 |
| Selling the Faith | p. 297 |
| The Day of New Beginnings | p. 310 |
| God's Open Door | p. 311 |
| The Call to Authenticity | p. 314 |
| Bibliography | p. 318 |
| Index | p. 335 |
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