David F. Wells

For other people called David Wells, see David Wells (disambiguation).

David Falconer Wells (born 1939) is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.^[1] He is the author of several books in which his evangelical theology engages with the modern world.

Wells received his B.D. from the University of London; Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D. from Manchester University (England); and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School. Wells 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?

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

	Christianity portal
	Biography portal

1. ^ http://www.gcts.edu/prospective_students/david_f_wells

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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