Pearcey, Nancy.

Total truth : liberating Christianity from its cultural captivity / Nancy R. Pearcey ; foreword by Phillip E. Johnson. - Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, c2004. - 479 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-465) and index.

Introduction -- 1. What's in a worldview? Breaking out of the grid -- Rediscovering joy -- Keeping religion in its place -- Surviving the spiritual wasteland -- 2. Starting at the beginning. Darwin meets the Berenstain Bears -- The science of common sense -- Today biology : tomorrow the world -- Darwins of the mind -- 3. How we lost our minds. What's so good about evangelicalism? -- When America met Christianity-- guess who won? -- Evangelicals' two-story truth -- How women started the culture war -- 4. What next? Living it out. True spirituality and Christian worldview. Appendices: 1. How American politics became secularized -- 2. Modern Islam and the New Age Movement -- 3. The long war between materialism and Christianity -- 4. Isms on the run : practical apologetics at L'Abri.

1581344589 (HC : alk. paper)

2003019514


Christianity--Philosophy.
Apologetics.
Christian life.
History--Religious aspects--Christianity.
History--Philosophy.

BR 100 / .P37 2004