ABOVE ALL EARTHLY POW’RS
Christ in a Postmodern World
By David F. Wells. IVP. 340 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978-1-84474-106-0
I had this book on my shelf unread for two years. EN did send it out to a reviewer when it was first published, but nothing ever came back. So, I thought I had better review my own copy.
This is the last of David Wells’s four-volume examination of the spirit of our age, which began with No Place for Truth and continued with God in the Wasteland and Losing our Virtue. In defence of the reviewer who never delivered, I have to say that the fourth book is quite a hefty read, with some chapters 40 or 50 pages long. You can, therefore, lose the wood for the trees a bit. But having said that, the content well repays the required effort.
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