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Editorial Reviews
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On one level, this book is a lucid, easy-to-understand manual for worldview thinking. But it also breaks new ground in worldview analysis."
―World MagazineWorld Magazine
"Pearcey is an outstanding writer with the ability not only to express deep thoughts in a very readable way, but one who also understands a biblically reformed world and life view. If you buy only one book this year, this would be at the top of the list."
―Equip For MinistryEquip For Ministry
"Pearcey helps readers see how many modern Christians unwittingly accept a sacred/secular split, which allows them to relegate faith to the private sphere of life. She then clearly puts forth a Scriptural picture of integrating all of life under the liberating Lordship of Christ and shows what that truth means for the areas of public policy, family life, science, business, law, education, and more."
―Covenant MagazineCovenant Magazine
Total Truth questions the modern American cultural attitude of keeping religion a private matter, claiming that Christianity's truth is best served by being brought into the public sphere to maximize its influence."
―Midwest Book Review
"Thoroughly researched, well-written and well-argued, Total Truth will prove to be a useful and easily accessible guidebook for many who seek to develop a comprehensive biblical worldview that affects not only beliefs but actions."
―CaliforniaRepublic.org CaliforniaRepublic.org
About the Author
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.
author, Darwin on Trial and Reason in the Balance
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- Publisher : Crossway; Study Guide edition (February 28, 2008)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 512 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1433502208
- ISBN-13 : 978-1433502200
- Item Weight : 1.47 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.1 x 8.8 inches
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Nancy Pearcey puts a stake in the heart of the anti-intellectual demon that has plagued the Church, and has called out a feeble, feckless, feminized Church. Total Truth provides the intellectual weapons to cross swords with secular philosophies. The "God said it. I believe it. That settles it" faith doesn't cut it in the intellectual arena. Christians have to be equipped to wage war on secularism and other vain philosophies. Nancy Pearcey helps us do just that.
Pearcey demonstrates impressive mastery of philosophy, history, sociology, literature, and theology as she argues with compelling clarity that the truth of Christianity is total truth.
This book should be required reading. For everybody. Every pastor, elder and deacon should read it. Every parent should read it. If you send your children to university, and they haven't read this book or learned its content in some other way, you are setting them up for spiritual suicide.
What are you waiting for? Go buy it already.
Pearcey's Saving Leonardo and Finding Truth are also highly recommended.
I grew up in the typical Christian home where we went to church every Sunday, but we were not properly equipped to defend Christian faith from modern secularism.
Nancy Pearcey is a godsend to any Christian seeking to develop and/or bolster a unified Christian worldview capable of identifying and defending against conflicting and hostile worldviews.
your brother in Christ,
Albert R.
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If you haven't read this book before, it's astounding, a book you never realised you needed to read.
Die 1952 geborene US-Amerikanerin zählt zu den wenigen weiblichen evangelikalen Intellektuellen. Pearcey zählt den zu geistlichen Erben von Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984). Der Besuch in schweizerischen L’abri anfangs der 1970er-Jahre hatte die damals agnostische junge Frau nachhaltig aufgerüttelt. Dies schildert sie denn auch in „Total Truth“. Heute leitet Pearcey zusammen mit ihrem Mann das „Francis Schaeffer Center for Worldview and Culture“ der Houston Baptist University.
Um was geht es?
Philipp E. Johnson, ein führender Kopf der Intelligent Design-Bewegung in den USA, schreibt im Vorwort: „Weltanschauung zu verstehen gleicht dem Versuch, die Linse des eigenen Auges zu sehen. Normalerweise sehen wir unsere eigene Weltsicht nicht, stattdessen sehen wir alles andere durch diesen Filter. Einfach gesagt ist die Weltanschauung das Fenster, durch das wir die Welt – oft unbewusst – wahrnehmen und (dann) entscheiden, was real und wichtig oder nicht real und unwichtig ist.“ Die Wahrnehmung für dieses „Fenster zur Welt“ zu schärfen, darum geht es Pearcey in diesem Buch.Wir sind es uns gewohnt, zwischen einem „wissenschaftlichen“, „wertefreien“ Bereich der öffentlichen Institutionen und einer privaten Sphäre der persönlichen Überzeugungen und Entscheidungen zu unterscheiden.
Wie ist das Buch aufgebaut?
Pearcey hat ihr Werk in vier Teile aufgeteilt: Im ersten Teil legt Pearcey die Grundlagen für einen biblisch-weltanschaulichen Grundrahmen. Dieser hängt an drei Fragen:
Schöpfung: Wie hat alles begonnen?
Fall: Was ist schief gegangen?
Erlösung: Wie kann es wiederhergestellt werden?
Der zweite Teil beschäftigt sich mit der Schöpfung, dem Startpunkt jeder Weltanschauung. Pearcey entfaltet darin ein engagiertes Plädoyer für den Intelligent Design-Ansatz. Wer sich bereits mit der evolutionistischen Weltanschauung abgefunden hat, reibt sich über diesen Seiten erstaunt die Augen.
Der dritte Teil geht der Frage nach, warum die Evangelikalen keine Tradition der Verteidigung ihrer Weltanschauung entwickelt haben.
Wo bleibt die Umsetzung? Das mögen sich einige gegen Schluss des Werkes fragen. Dafür hat sich Pearcey den vierten Teil vorbehalten. Der Rückgriff auf das wichtige Werk von Francis Schaeffer „Geistliches Leben – was ist das?“ hielt ich für angebracht.
Vier Anhänge mit Vertiefungen über die Säkularisierung der US-amerikanischen Politik, den modernen Islam und die New Age-Bewegung, den Materialismus und die Apologetik, wie sie in L’abri betrieben wurde, runden die Lektüre ab. Eine ausführliche, kommentierte Leseliste sowie ein Studienführen beschliessen das über 400 Seiten starke Werk.
Was faszinierte mich?
Zumindest in meiner Lebensrealität halten wir – trotz Bekenntnis – die zwei Lebensbereiche privat und öffentlich bzw. säkular und geistlich fein säuberlich getrennt. So ging mir denn die Ermahnung Pearceys zu Herzen. Sie sagte: „Der erste Schritt zum bewussten Um- und Aufbau einer christlichen Weltanschauung besteht darin, auf die Suche nach den eigenen Götzen zu gehen.“ Besonders geblieben sind mir einzelne biographische Elemente des Buches, so etwa die Beschreibung ihres engagierten Vaters, der den Familientisch für manche Lektionen und Diskussionen nutzte. Dass sie mit ihren Söhnen frühzeitig weltanschauliche Themen dort bearbeitete, wo sie auftauchten – zum Beispiel in den Kinderbüchern -, fand ich nachahmenswert. Ebenso berührte mich Pearceys Schilderung ihrer Zeit, als sie ehrlich nach der Wahrheit suchte. Ebenso nahe ging mir der Abschnitt im vierten Teil, in dem sie über ihr Ringen um ihre Rolle als Mutter berichtet.
Welche Stellen irritierten?
Bisweilen fragte ich mich, ob ich den Ansprüchen „eine versöhnende Kraft in jedem Bereich der Kultur “ sein, verpflichtet bin. Ebenso bezweifle ich, exzellentere Lösungen als jeder Nichtchrist zustande bringen zu müssen. Wird hier nicht eine Erwartung aufgebaut, welche meine tief in mir wurzelnde Neigung zur Selbsterlösung stimuliert?
Ein weiteres Thema, das ich nicht genügend beleuchtet finde, ist der Stellenwert der Gemeinde. Pearcey betont zwar deren Wichtigkeit, wenn sie schreibt, dass die Gemeinde der Plausibilitätstest für das Evangelium sei. Bei mir blieb eher ihr Beispiel hängen, als sie bei einem Probebesuch in einer neuen Gemeinde den Pastor gegen die kopflastigen Bibelschulen uns Seminare wettern hörte.
Den einen oder anderen mag das dritte Kapitel, das die Geschichte der Evangelikalen in den USA beschreibt, dann doch gar amerikanisch anzumuten. Ich blieb dennoch sehr konzentriert, denn die Ausführungen werfen Licht auf den Anti-Intellektualismus, dem ich auch in unseren Gemeinden auf Schritt und Tritt begegne.
Ich legte das Buch mit einem tiefen Seufzer zur Seite. Für mich notierte ich: „Durch dieses Buch bin ich satt geworden.“ Ich empfehle es jedem Leser, welcher der englischen Sprache mächtig ist. Und ich wünsche mir mehr solches Material in der deutschen Sprache.
The cultural captivity that Pearcey refers to is the banishment of Christian ideas to the private sphere of values and subjective feelings, and out of the public sphere of facts, objective knowledge, and science. This two-tiered division of truth that our culture (and many Christians) accepts results in both the truth claims of Christianity not being taken seriously since they are not seen as belonging to the realm of knowledge, and in Christians themselves not knowing how to integrate their faith to the whole of reality. Worse, evangelicals (conservative Bible-believing Christians) have gone from dominating the culture of the nineteenth century, to being completely marginalized today. And it is largely their own fault.
Though they controlled all the cultural institutions at that time, nineteenth century evangelicals, as a result of the First and Second Great Awakenings, had come to view Christianity primarily in terms of non-cognitive categories of emotion and experience. Their religious beliefs were still an integral part of their "lower story" activities such as science, but because they did not view their Christianity as "total truth", a worldview which orders all of reality, they could not recognize the threat of competing worldviews which came along at that time. When the Baconian view of science that Enlightenment intellectuals had become intoxicated with, promised that knowledge could be based on bare empirical facts, unfiltered through any religious or philosophical grid, Christians were persuaded to set aside their own religious framework. But this view of science, or any other activity, as religiously neutral, is false, and so the withdrawal of Christian presuppositions created a vacuum that was quickly filled by alien philosophical frameworks, namely naturalism and empiricism. These were introduced under the banner of "objectivity" and "free inquiry" whereas Christian views were seen as biased. As a result Christian perspectives were driven out of the lower story to the upper, where they have remained to this day.
"It is nothing less than tragic that Christians themselves were partly responsible for the privatizing of religion", Pearcey notes. Then and even today, many embraced as perfectly reasonable the subsequent principle of methodological naturalism, thinking that it was simply a refinement of scientific practice to limit the scope of investigation of the natural world to natural explanations. They did not recognize that this opened the door to metaphysical naturalism. "After all, if you can interpret the world perfectly well without reference to God, then His existence becomes a superfluous hypothesis." Historian George Marsden is quoted as saying that "the naturalistic definition of science was transformed from a methodology into a dominant academic worldview."
All worldviews, Christian and non-Christian, seek to provide an overarching metanarrative that answer the questions of Creation, Fall, and Redemption. The worldview of naturalism, that the natural world is all there is, has been around since the ancient Greeks. But it never really caught on because it was not able to answer the fundamental question of Creation without smuggling in concepts from a theistic worldview. Darwinian evolution finally provided this creation myth and so laid the foundation for a century and a half of naturalism as the dominant worldview in our culture. If we understand this, we can understand why the biblical teaching of Creation is under such relentless attack today. What is at stake is the first principle of the Christian worldview; everything stands or falls with its teaching on ultimate origins.
This concept is absolutely critical, and so Pearcey devotes a third of the book to discussing evolution. It was not just a mere scientific theory which sought to explain the facts of the natural world; its significance rather was that it signalled a revolution in what counts as knowledge. Christians, then and now, who do not know how to construct their own worldview and critique competing ones with the grid of Creation, Fall, and Redemption, have missed this clash of worldviews, and have either retreated into Fundamentalism, or have attempted to reconcile their theism with evolution, a move which, because of what is at stake, is very dangerous.
When Christianity is articulated as a full fledged worldview, it is liberated from the two-story division that has reduced it to an upper-story private experience and is restored to the status of objective truth. We can then recognize the non-Christian assumptions and methods that have permeated our thinking. We will once again begin practicing theistic science (and economics, and law, etc.) because it will once again seem appropriate to consult all that we know when doing these activities. Intelligent Design is seeking to do just that in the realm of science, but is encountering resistance among Christians who don't yet recognize the conflict as one over competing worldviews. This resistance is even among Reformed Christians, where worldview thinking has a long and rich history. What this tells me is that the conflict runs deep, and that time, wisdom, and humility are needed before we can purge all worldly ways of thinking and take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ.
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