David F. Wells
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David Falconer Wells (born 1939) is the Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books in which his evangelical theology engages with the modern world. He is a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. The Cambridge Declaration came about in 1996 as a result of his book No Place for Truth, or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
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Books
He has authored or co-authored numerous publications including:
- 1971, Toward a theology for the future (edited with Clark H. Pinnock)
- 1973, Revolution in Rome
- 1975, The Evangelicals : what they believe, who they are, where they are changing (edited with John D. Woodbridge)
- 1978, The Search for Salvation
- 1979, The prophetic theology of George Tyrrell
- 1984, The person of Christ : a biblical and historical analysis of the incarnation
- 1985, Reformed theology in America : a history of its modern development (ed.)
- 1987, God the evangelist : how the Holy Spirit works to bring men and women to faith
- 1988, Christian faith and practice in the modern world (edited with Mark A. Noll)
- 1989, Turning to God : Biblical conversion in the modern world
- 1991, The Gospel in the modern world : a tribute to John Stott (edited with Martyn Eden)
- 1993, No place for truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
- 1994, God in the wasteland : reality of truth in a world of fading dreams
- 1995, The bleeding of the evangelical church
- 1998, Losing our virtue : why the church must recover its moral vision
- 2005, Above all earthly pow'rs : Christ in a postmodern world
- 2008, The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Post-Modern World
References
External links
- David Wells faculty page at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
- Interview with David Wells January 2006, relating to his book, Above All Earthly Pow'rs
- The Nature and Function of Theology by David F. Wells
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