David F. Wells challenges evangelicalism with a disturbing analysis of its present condition: we have allowed ourselves to be shaped by a popular culture whose ethos is alien to God-consciousness, to other-worldliness, and to any passion for biblical truth.

In putting success before theology, he argues, we have produced a plague of our own making. Short enough to be read in a sitting and pointed enough to be worth re-reading, this is the compressed form of the argument Wells makes at length in No Place for Truth and its sequels.