num_pages: 272
description: It takes no courage to sign up as a Protestant. These words begin this bold new work -- the culmination of David Wells's long-standing critique of the evangelical landscape. But to live as a true Protestant -- well that's another matter.This book is a jeremiad against new versions of evangelicalism -- marketers and emergents -- and a summons to return to the historic faith defined by the Reformation solas (grace faith and Scripture alone) and by a high regard for doctrine.Wells argues that historic classical evangelicalism is marked by doctrinal seriousness as opposed to the new movements of the marketing church and the emergent church. He energetically confronts the marketing communities and their tendency to try to win parishioners as consumers rather than worshipers advertising the most palatable environment rather than trusting the truth to be attractive. He takes particular issue with the most popular evangelical movement in recent years -- the emergent church. Emergents he says are postmodern and postconservative and postfoundational embracing a less absolute understanding of the authority of Scripture than traditionally held.The Courage to Be Protestant is a forceful argument for the courage to be faithful to what Christianity in its biblical forms has always stood for thereby securing hope for the church's future. 
language: English
title: The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Postmodern World
publisher: Eerdmans