Selfolatry

If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself. If there is a challenge that biblical discipleship poses to Americans, it is self-denial.

I’ve benefited greatly from the theological sociology found in David Wells’s five book series beginning with No Place for Truth (1993) and concluding with The Courage To Be Protestant (2008). In 1998 Losing Our Virtue (hereafter LOV), was the third book published in this series and most directly speaks to the issue of Americanism’s self-worship: selfolatry. Self is the Zeus in the American Pantheon. Self is the big daddy god of American pluralism. Read the rest HERE