Quotes by David Wells
David Wells (b. 1939) — Theologe und Professor für Systematische Theologie · Reformiert-evangelikal · USA
David Falconer Wells (* 1939) ist ein US-amerikanischer reformierter Theologe und lehrte über viele Jahre als Professor für Systematische Theologie am Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Er wurde vor allem durch seine kulturkritischen Analysen bekannt, in denen er dem modernen Evangelikalismus einen Verlust an theologischer Tiefe zugunsten von Pragmatismus und Konsumorientierung vorwirft. Bibellesern dient er heute als scharfsinniger Diagnostiker der Säkularisierung und als Mahner für theologische Integrität gegenüber zeitgeistigen Anpassungen.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Church & Congregation, Freedom & Truth, Grace & Redemption, The Bible & the Word of God, Hope & Confidence, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Humility & Pride
Quotes by David Wells
A God who is without wrath is a God whose Christ has no cross, and if He has no cross, it can only be because we are those to have no need of His cross.
David Wells
Christian hope rests upon the fact not that evil can be ignored, or that it will simply fade away, but that it has been judged at the cross.
David Wells
A God with whom we are on…easy terms and whose reality is little different from our own…who is merely there to satisfy our needs – has no real authority to compel and will soon begin to bore us.
David Wells
We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that He is benign, that He will acquiesce as we toy with His reality and co-opt Him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.
David Wells
We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God’s truth.
David Wells
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is not inadequate technique, insufficient organization, or antiquated music and those who want to squander the church’s resources bandaging these scratches will do nothing to staunch the flow of blood that is spilling from its wounds. The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace too ordinary, His judgment too benign, His gospel too easy, and His Christ is too common.
David Wells
The new evangelicalism is not driven by the same passion for truth as the older form, and that is why it is often empty of theological interest. We now have less biblical fidelity, less interest in the truth, less seriousness, less depth and less capacity to speak the Word of God to our own generation in a way that offers an alternative to what it already thinks.
David Wells
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.
David Wells
Sources: theopedia.com, modernreformation.org, banneroftruth.org, richmondbizsense.com
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