Description
CC OPINION: Regardless of your worldview, Nancy Pearcey’s Saving Leonardo will cause you to question the influence and restructuring of society. Saving Leonardo rings with choices, the theme of Challenge II. What philosophies do we choose to surround ourselves with in music, television, and literature? How do we choose to respond to them? Pearcey brings insight and talking points that will help parents dig deeper in conversation with their students.
Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanising.
A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives. Whether you are a devoted Christian, determined secularist, or don't know quite where you stand, reading Saving Leonardo will unsettle established views and topple ideological idols. Includes more than 100 art reproductions and illustrations that bring the book's themes to life.
| Recommended in Program(s): | Challenge II |
| Cycle(s): | n/a |
Details
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Publisher: |
B&H Books |
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Publication date: |
1 September 2017 |
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Number of pages: |
336 |
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Weight: |
820 g |
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Dimensions: |
1.78 cms H x 25.15 cms L x 18.03 cms W |
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Format: |
Paperback |
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ISBN: |
9781462787722 |
Author
Nancy Pearcey wrote Saving Leonardo while serving as a research professor of Worldview Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University. Pearcey studied Christian worldview at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland with Francis Schaeffer and was later named the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute in New York City. She earned a master's degree from Covenant Theological Seminary and pursued further graduate work in the History of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto.
Pearcey has been a commentator on Public Square Radio, the founding editor of the daily radio program "BreakPoint," and has appeared on NPR and C-SPAN. Currently, she is a fellow at the Discovery Institute and editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report. She co-authored a column in Christianity Today, and has authored or contributed to several books, including The Soul of Science and How Now Shall We Live? (with Charles Colson, contributions by Harold Fickett). Her most recent book was the best-selling Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity, which won the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award for best book of the year on Christianity & Society.