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CC OPINION: Nancy Pearcey argues that for the “true truth,” the good truth, the total truth, we must turn to God. Society relegates God to the private sector, apart from our textbooks and speeches and articles, preventing the world from operating with total truth. Especially fitting for a Challenge I parent, Total Truth helps parents to build a foundation for helping their students focus on truth as they explore freedom through debate, literature, economics, and more.


Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and education? Or is religion a private matter only-personally comforting but publicly irrelevant?

In today's cultural etiquette, it is not considered polite to mix public and private, or sacred and secular. This division is the single most potent force keeping Christianity contained in the private sphere-stripping it of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.

In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the public/private split, explaining how it hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal. Ultimately it reflects a division in the concept of truth itself, which functions as a gatekeeper, ruling Christian principles out of bounds in the public arena.

How can we unify our fragmented lives and recover spiritual power? With examples from the lives of real people, past and present, Pearcey teaches readers how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity. She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for crafting 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.

This new study guide edition is filled with fresh stories, examples, and illustrations. Based on questions and comments raised by readers of the book, it is ideal for individual or group study.

 Recommended in Program(s): Challenge I
Cycle(s): n/a 

Details

 Publisher:

Crossway Books

Publication date:

2008

Number of pages:

511

Weight:

690 g

Dimensions:

2.79 cms H x 22.35 cms L x 15.24 cms W

Format:

Paperback

ISBN:

1433502208

Author

NANCY RANDOLPH PEARCEY is the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute, where she teaches a worldview course based on the study guide edition of Total Truth. A former agnostic, Pearcey studied Christian worldview under Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland in the early 1970s. She earned an M. A. from Covenant Theological Seminary, followed by further graduate work in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. Pearcey has been publishing pioneering works on Christian worldview since 1977, and she has been heralded as one of the few female intellectuals in evangelicalism (The Evangelical Outpost). She has authored or contributed to articles in numerous journals and magazines, as well as Crossway's The Soul of Science and the bestselling, award-winning How Now Shall We Live?


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