David Falconer Wells is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Gordon–Conwell Theological Seminary is an evangelical theological seminary whose main campus is based in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, with three other campuses in Boston, Charlotte, North Carolina and Jacksonville. The current president of Gordon-Conwell is Dennis Hollinger...

. He is the author of several books in which his evangelical

Evangelicalism

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 theology engages with the modern world.

Wells received his B.D. from the University of London

University of London

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; Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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; Ph.D. from Manchester University (England); and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School

Yale Divinity School

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. Wells is a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

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. The Cambridge Declaration

The Cambridge Declaration

The Cambridge Declaration is a statement of faith written in 1996 by the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals, a group of Reformed and Lutheran Evangelicals who were concerned with the state of the Evangelical movement in America, and throughout the world....

 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
  Mark Noll
  Mark A. Noll is a historian specializing in the history of Christianity in the United States. He holds the position of Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame...
  
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• 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

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