About this title: In response to the growing contemporary separation of faith from public life, Pearcey proposes an integrated Christian worldview as the solution.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9781581344585ISBN:1581344589
Description: Very Good in Like new jacket. A few pages with underlining. For quick service, please consider Expedited shipping since standard delivery may range from 4-18 business days. Thank you. Prior owner's name on ffep. read more
Description: New. 1581344589. FLAWLESS COPY, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED--479 pages--DESCRIPTION: "As a religiously adrift young adult in the 1960s, Pearcey found her way to the Swiss retreat, and the intellectually rigorous faith, of the Calvinist maverick Francis Schaeffer. This book continues the Schaeffer-inspired project that Pearcey and Chuck Colson began in How Now Shall We Live? -awakening evangelical Christians to the need for a Christian "worldview, " which Pearcey defines as "a biblically informed ... read more
Description: Good. 1581344589 TITLE: Total TruthAUTHOR: Pearcey, NancyISBN 10: 1581344589ISBN 13: 9781581344585BINDING: Hardback with Dust JacketPUBLICATION DATE: 2004PAGES: 479DESCRIPTION: Used book in good or better condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crossway Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781581344585ISBN:1581344589
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. hb, 2005, 4th printing, used as a textbook so underlining and writing, nice condition though, dj has edge tears, binding tight, book has been used but taken care of, SKU-A077, A small family business... Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 480 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Crossway Books, Wheaton
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781581347463ISBN:1581347464
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. pp. [11] 512. "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. " read more
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If you are a Christian who can only afford to read one book this year, read your Bible! If you can afford to read two, read your Bible and Nancy Pearcey's "Total Truth".
Things that deeply challenged me in this book:
1.) Pearcey laments that American Christians have almost universally adopted a bifurcated worldview that understands modern science to offer purely objective facts worthy of universal and uncritical acceptance, while religion offers only subjective opinions on which no broad consensus can ever be reached. This artificial nature of this division of public and objective "knowledge" from private and subjective "opinion" is hardly a new concept and yet Pearcey's survey of its origins and suggested remedies are not only informative, but deeply convicting.
2.) Pearcey argues that American evangelicalism has presented an unbalanced view of the Gospel by placing too much stress on the Fall of to the neglect of the message that God created all things good and will redeem creation to again glorify him. She argues that the true Gospel must include the message of Creation, Fall, and Redemption; and warns of the danger of emphasizing one aspect to the degree that it the others are neglected. I have found this message of Creation consipicuously absent in popular evangelism techniques and I think this is the reason they do not work outside of American culture. We need the whole message of Creation, Fall, and Redemption.
3.) This is the one that hit me the hardest. Pearcey traces the rise of modern views about the roles of men and women in society and in the home and the results shocked me. Rather than trying to summarize all of this in a few sentences let me just encourage you to take 30 minutes in Barnes & Noble to read chapters 12-13. Believe me, it's well worth the time and efffort! But be sure you don't bring any $ if you don't plan to buy the book after that!
If I could recommend one book to you besides the Bible, THIS IS THE ONE!"
"Total Truth, is a strange title for a homosapien book. Even the great Apostle Paul saw through a glass dimly. Not so with Ms. Nancy Pearcey. She has not a grid, but the grid. Maybe that is where I’m just too wary to fully join her. Ms. Pearcy has the grid. So somehow if you don’t use her grid your Christianity is just not up to snuff, especially as a thinking Christian. She is just a little too confident in her assertions. It is a ‘we (thinking Evangelicals) have the total truth’ and all we really need do is convince the world of it and we pretty much rid the world of most of its problems. In the last chapter of her book she talks about our need to love one another and states that possibly the last chapter should have been the first. I fully agree with her here and wish that she had spent more time in really looking how we Christians should relate to one another in the love of Christ.
Her roots are with Francis Schaffer but somehow things come presented all packaged with little challenge on how evangelicals ought really to love one another. Loving Catholics isn’t even in the equation. In one particularly annoying segment she tells evangelicals to stop beating each other up over our understanding of creation as presented in the Genesis account and to go after the evolutionist. I guess after we impale them then we can get back to eviscerating one another. The book is not a total waste I only wish she had put more of her mental energies in how the love of Christ should look for us as thinking Christians."
"An interesting read as to how we as Christians respond to our culture and how we came to have or not have a Christian worldview. Need to put your thinking cap on to read! It gave an incredible amount of info and a lot to think about."
"An excellent book! Don't sit down to read it without a pen and paper, highlighter and a whole lot of time. Nancy Pearcey does an excellent job of connecting themes throughout the book to give a clear understanding of the worldviews around us and their effect on society. She addresses themes from Darwinism and naturalism to the disintegration of the roles of men and women in the family and in society. It's a very real-life exposition of the impact of worldviews and leaves you with a clearer understanding of things. Not an easy read, but well worth the exhausted brain cells."
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