The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism – J. Daryl Charles

By far, Charles’ book was the best that I read for my Christian Ethics class. I encourage everyone to read it, and do so quickly. It isn’t a difficult book to work through, but it is academically beneficial, and a real character shaper. I’ll be quite brief in this synopsis, but the link to the full review I’ve written is one paper that I’d advise people to take 10 minutes to read. This book really is great. The Unformed Conscience is also a great primer for those interested in how to interact with moral, ethical issues on a level beyond the issues themselves, but also with respect to various world views and paradigms of thought. Thus, after we lay a Christian worldview for people, they can actually engage the culture meaningfully. In terms of assessing the current situation in the Church, Charles strongly argues a point on which is tied directly to the subtitle of his book: “Recovering the Church’s Moral Vision.”  I entirely agree with him on this - that Christian morality and character development are lacking among evangelicals today is often directly linked to a lack of academic, theological and doctrinal training in the local church. I’ll leave that for you to ponder as you hopefully click the link below to read the full review, if you want to learn more about what I, and Charles, mean.

“An Analysis of J. Daryl Charles’s The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism“