Said at Southern is coordinating a group book review & forum based on the new book by David F. Wells titled The Courage To Be Protestant. In this post, I’ll introduce our project and provide some background information on David Wells.
About The Group Book Review
I’ve drafted several friends and frequent readers to contribute to the project. Each guest writer has agreed to post a short discussion of one chapter from the book. Then we’ll use the comment section on each post as a mini-forum to discuss issues raised by that chapter. Here is what I’ve asked each contributor to write:
- Chapter Summary (about 2 paragraphs)
- Personal Observations and Comment (about 1 paragraph)
- Several Questions For Readers To Discuss (bulleted list of about 3 questions)
Posting Schedule
- Chapter 1: “The Lay of the Evangelical Land” by Robert E. Sagers
- Chapter 2: “Christianity For Sale” by Drew Dixon
- Chapter 3: “Truth” by Terry Delaney
- Chapter 4: “God” by Todd Young
- Chapter 5: “Self” by Danny Slavich
- Chapter 6: “Christ” by Stephan Newell
- Chapter 7: “Church” by Trevin Wax
- Conclusion & Recommended Use 7/14/2008
How You Can Get Involved
To make this project work, we’ll need many engaged readers. So, I want to encourage everyone to get involved. Make plans to read along in the book and contribute to the conversation.
Background Information About David F. Wells and The Courage To Be Protestant
- David Wells biography page at Gordon-Cromwell Theological Seminary
- David F. Wells on Theopdeia
- Colin Hanson’s written interview with Dr. Wells about The Courage To Be Protestant
- David Wells on The Albert Mohler Radio Program 6/5/2008
- 9 Marks Mp3 interview from 2005 “Changing Minds: Theology and Culture with David Wells”
- 9 Marks Mp3 interview from 2007 “Above All Earthly Powers with David Wells”
- Reforming My Mind Mp3 Listing For David Wells (25+ sermon and lectures)
- Timmy Birster’s bibliographic page on David Wells
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For those of you who are on or close to campus, the SBTS bookstore has this book on sale for $15 and has several in stock.
– Todd
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Thank you for this helpful summary. The promise that one can “customize your own experience” in the linked-to Hybels/Kimball/McLaren conference seems to encapsulate Wells’ judgment of what evangelicalism has become.