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    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
    Audiobook17 hours

    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

    Written by Nancy Pearcey

    Narrated by Kate Reading

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateAug 1, 2006
    ISBN9781596443372
    Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity
    Author

    Nancy Pearcey

    Nancy R. Pearcey (PhD, Philadelphia Biblical University) is the editor at large of the Pearcey Report as well as scholar in residence and professor at Houston Baptist University. She is also a fellow at the Discovery Institute. She was previously the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute and has also served as professor of worldview studies at Philadelphia Biblical University.

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    • 5/5
      Most important book for Christians in our day. Must read and share!
    • 5/5
      This book could probably use a re-upload by the Scribd team. Kate Redding's otherwise excellent reading is marred by a computer-generated lisp.
    • 4/5
      Very good revision of Schaeffer's historical and philosophical overview of Western culture as an explanation of the Christian worldview. The end of the book was a disappointment, as the author appeared to be using her book to try to settle some personal grievances.
    • 5/5
      A well-researched, well-written book by a scholar who was influenced by the theologian, Francis Schaeffer, to search for truth. She explains clearly what is a worldview and argues passionately that in keeping religion within our private walls, we have lost our ability to influence the culture.
    • 5/5
      You will find out if it's a Christian worldview you're living or not. You, like me, will probably be surprised.
    • 5/5
      I was expecting a simple apologetics book. I got so much more! I now see how integral our worldview is and how we are so ignorant about our own thought processes. I’m catching myself picking out assumptions people have behind statements. I see common things Christians do in a new light. If you want to look at the world through a Biblical lens or just want to learn some Christian history, read it. 12/10
    • 3/5
      "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."
    • 4/5
      Recommended read for every Christian. It is a wake-up call for Christians at the ease with which our culture and its secular worldview is now taking over our schools and even our own way of looking at things. We have relegated the spiritual to a compartment of our lives instead of allowing it to integrate all facets of how we live. Part of the book takes us through the historical aspects of how the church came to be what it is today. As well as how men and women's roles have changed through the years. Developing a worldview that is Biblical is essential in being able to interact with the world we live in. Otherwise we fall prey to the worldviews of those around us and become sucked into the naturalistic, materialistic way of living that is our American culture today.The importance of teaching our youth is also emphasized so they have tools to challenge the views of those who are anti-biblical. Seeing how the secular humanistic worldview breaks down illogically helps them to cement the truths of Scripture in their own lives.*I own this book
    • 5/5
      It is an excellent Christian apologetics book for upper high school level through adult.