Wells, David F.

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WELLS, David F.

PERSONAL:

Born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); married; wife's name Jane. Education: Attended University of Cape Town; University of London, B.D., 1966; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Th.M.; University of Manchester, Ph.D., 1969.

ADDRESSES:

Home—South Hamilton, MA. Office—Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 130 Essex St., South Hamilton, MA 01982.

CAREER:

Educator and historian. Practiced architecture in England, c. 1960. Trinity Divinity School, Deerfield, MA, instructor, beginning 1969, then professor and chair of department of church history, chair of systematic theology, 1977; Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, MA, professor, beginning 1979, academic dean of Charlotte campus, 1998-2000, currently Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology. Yale University, New Haven, CT, research fellow, 1973-74. Member, Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

MEMBER:

American Theological Society.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Pew Charitable Trust grant for senior scholars, 1989-91.

WRITINGS:

Revolution in Rome, InterVarsity Press (Downer's Grove, IL), 1972.

A Search for Salvation, InterVarsity Press (Downer's Grove, IL), 1978.

The Prophetic Theology of George Tyrrell, Scholars Press (Chico, CA), 1979.

The Person of Christ: A Biblical and Historical Analysis of the Incarnation, Crossways (Westchester, IL), 1984.

God the Evangelist: How the Holy Spirit Works to Bring Me and Women to Faith, Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1987.

Turning to God: Biblical Conversion in the Modern World, Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1989.

No Place for Truth; or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology? (first in series), Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1993.

God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams (second in series), Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1994.

Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision, Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1998.

(With others) Whatever Happened to the Reformation?, P. & R. Press, 2001.

Contributor to books, including (and general editor) Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in America, and The Compromised Church: The Present Evangelical Crisis, edited by John H. Armstrong, Crossway Books, 1998. Contributor to numerous periodicals and journals.

EDITOR

(With Clark H. Pinnock) Toward a Theology for the Future, Creation House (Carol Stream, IL), 1971.

(With John D. Woodbridge) The Evangelicals: What They Believe, Who They Are, Where They Are Changing, Abingdon (Nashville, TN), 1975.

(And contributor) Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Develpment, Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1985.

(With Mark A. Noll) Christian Faith and Practice in the Modern World: Theology from an Evangelical Point of View, Eerdmans (Grand Rapids, MI), 1988.

Southern Reformed Theology, Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1989.

Dutch Reformed Theology, Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1989.

Princeton Theology, Baker Book House (Grand Rapids, MI), 1989.

(With Martyn Eden) The Gospel in the Modern World: A Tribute to John Stott, InterVarsity Press (Downer's Grove, IL), 1991.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, May 15, 1993, Gary Young, review of No Place for Truth; or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?, p. 1657.

Choice, September, 1998, W. B. Bedford, review of Losing Our Virtue: Why the Church Must Recover Its Moral Vision, p. 150.

Christian Century, April 5, 1985, p. 53; July 30, 1986, Richard P. Cimino, review of Reformed Theology in America: A History of Its Modern Development, p. 685; November 23, 1994, Phillip Cary, review of God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, p. 1111.

Christianity Today, May 12, 1989, p. 62.

First Things, January, 1999, J. Daryl Charles, review of Losing Our Virtue, p. 50.

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, winter, 1995, Robert K. Johnston, review of God in the Wasteland: The Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams, p. 872.

Library Journal, August, 1994, p. 93.

Theology Today, April, 1994, Jeffrey Gros, review of No Place for Truth, p. 180; January, 1996, John Bolt, review of God in the Wasteland, p. 540.