David Falconer Wells (born May 11, 1939) is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books in which his
evangelical
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theology engages with the modern world. He has taught at
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and has served as the Academic Dean at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary's Charlotte, North Carolina campus.
Wells received his B.D. from the
University of London
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; Th.M. from
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D. from
Manchester University (England); and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at
Yale Divinity School
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. Wells is a Council member of the
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He also serves on the board of the Rafiki Foundation and as a member for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization.
The Cambridge Declaration
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came about in 1996 as a result of his book ''No Place for Truth, or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?''
Books
He has authored, co-authored, or edited numerous publications including:
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1939 births
American Congregationalists
American Calvinist and Reformed theologians
Living people
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School alumni
20th-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
21st-century Calvinist and Reformed theologians
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