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- Cover Type:
- 512 Pages
- Publisher: Crossway/Good News Publishers
- Publication Date: March 2008
- ISBN: SPEARCNATOTALTRUTHLIBERATING9781433502200
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity (Paperback - Study Guide Edition)
How can you liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity? In this superbly crafted cultural analysis, noted author Nancy Pearcey passionately argues that Christianity is truth about all reality, not just religious truth, and that to keep it privatized is stripping it of the power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.
Is God a public figure? Does Christianity have a legitimate role to play in the public realm of politics, business, law, and education? Or are secularists right when they relegate religion to the strictly private realm of faith and feelings?
In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the split between public and private, fact and feelings. She reveals the strategies of secularist gatekeepers who use this division to banish biblical principles from the cultural mainstream, stripping Christianity of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.
How can we overcome this divide? Unify our fragmented lives? Recover authentic spirituality? With compelling examples from the struggles of real people, Pearcey shows how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity. She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for developing a full-orbed Christian worldview. Finally, she makes a passionate case that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality. It is total truth.
Includes group discussion guides for each chapter.
About the Author
Nancy Pearcey is scholar for worldview studies at Philadelphia Biblical University’s Center for University Studies. Pearcey has authored or contributed to several works, including the ECPA Gold Medallion winner How Now Shall We Live? (with Charles Colson) and The Soul of Science (with Charles Thaxton).
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"If you feel lost in the fog of today's cultural confusions, READ THIS BOOK." - , President, Center for Public Justice
James Skillen
"ASTUTE CULTURAL CRITIC and one of the few female intellectuals in evangelicalism." -
The Evangelical Outpost
"ALL WILL PROFIT MIGHTILY from what is written here.ĶPearcey takes us into truer and worthier witness in our increasingly secularized world." - , Professor of Theology, Regent College
J. I. Packer
"BREAKS NEW GROUND in worldview analysisĶthe most insightful applications since Francis Schaeffer." - , Culture Editor, World magazine
Gene Edward Veith
"Pearcey is FIRING ON ALL PISTONSĶI love her stubborn and intelligent insistence on the gospel's truth and relevance to all of life." - , Coauthor and Editor, Finding God at Harvard
Kelly Monroe Kullberg
"BOLD MANIFESTOĶMay well be one of the most important Christian books of our times." - , President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Al Mohler
"AMAZING in the depth of its worldview analysisĶSUPERBLY CRAFTEDĶBEST WORK of cultural analysis from a Christian standpoint available today." - , Author, The Universe Next Door
James Sire
"MARVELOUS CLARITYĶPearcey explains how modern science reinforces Christianityand why more Christians should be aware of it." - , Author, Darwin's Black Box
Michael Behe
"PROFOUNDĶPearcey makes complex issues clear as no one else has." - , Founder, Movieguide
Ted Baehr
"BRILLIANTĶPearcey has a mind like a jewel." - , Author, Worldproofing Your Kids
Lael Arrington
"UNIQUE COMBINATION of apologetics, worldview analysis, social commentary, and instruction manual. Pearcey's knowledge, insight, and faith place her among the TOP HANDFUL OF RELEVANT CHRISTIAN THINKERS of our time." - , Columnist, Author, Persecution
David Limbaugh
"SPLENDID, COMPREHENSIVE, PERSONAL MAGNUM OPUSĶEvery page is loaded with trenchant insights." - , U.S. Center for World Mission
Ralph Winter
"A book of UNUSUAL IMPORTANCE by an author of UNUSUAL ABILITY." - , UC Berkeley, from the Foreword
Phillip Johnson
"COMPELLINGĶEXCEPTIONALĶthe rare long book that leaves one wanting to read more." -
Publishers Weekly
Product Description
How can you liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity? In this superbly crafted cultural analysis, noted author Nancy Pearcey passionately argues that Christianity is truth about all reality, not just religious truth, and that to keep it privatized is stripping it of the power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.
Is God a public figure? Does Christianity have a legitimate role to play in the public realm of politics, business, law, and education? Or are secularists right when they relegate religion to the strictly private realm of faith and feelings?
In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the split between public and private, fact and feelings. She reveals the strategies of secularist gatekeepers who use this division to banish biblical principles from the cultural mainstream, stripping Christianity of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.
How can we overcome this divide? Unify our fragmented lives? Recover authentic spirituality? With compelling examples from the struggles of real people, Pearcey shows how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity. She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for developing a full-orbed Christian worldview. Finally, she makes a passionate case that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality. It is total truth.
Includes group discussion guides for each chapter.
About The Author
Product Details
- Cover Type:
- 512 Pages
- Publisher: Crossway/Good News Publishers
- Publication Date: March 2008
- ISBN: SPEARCNATOTALTRUTHLIBERATING9781433502200