LOSING OUR VIRTUE: why the church must recover its moral vision
By David F. Wells
IVP. 228 pages. £9.99
ISBN 0 85111 577 2
This is the third book in a significant series by David Wells, the first two being No place for Truth and God in the Wasteland. Whereas those books dealt with matters of truth and God in the context of modernity, this new work deals similarly with the doctrine of man.
The underlying theme is that the image of God in us has an indelibly moral component which the 20th century has done its utmost to suppress as it pursues pleasure in the playground of desire. However, this component is finally impossible to eradicate. In the words of M. Scott Peck, we have become 'people of the lie'.
