Although the lightest reading in this list, Packer's insights, synthesis, and compelling wit argue that the Word of God needs to have a higher role in the Church than it has been having of late. The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind . Noll is an evangelical historian who has done a blistering critique of the evangelical mind. He traces how the evangelical mind has gone to seed in the last two hundred years. This is must reading for those who need a vision of where to give of their financial resources.
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
In the former book, Wells reveals the sickness of soul that is modern evangelicalism. In this book, he offers his solution. The Closing of the American Mind . The insightful polemic against the soul of the American university today by a premiere political science professor at the University of Chicago. This is an important book if for no other reason than to show us what culture is switftly becoming.