Total Truth (Study Guide Edition – Trade Paperback)

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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.

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Auteursrechteigenaar: Bookwire
Oorspronkelijke uitgave: 2008
Jaar van uitgave: 2008
Uitgeverij: Crossway

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David Bloomerciteerde uit8 jaar geleden
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After becoming a Christian, I returned to L’Abri for a longer period of study, and discovered how liberating a worldview approach can be. There is no need to avoid the secular world and hide out behind the walls of an evangelical subculture; instead, Christians can appreciate works of art and culture as products of human creativity expressing the image of God. On the other hand, there is no danger of being naive or uncritical about false and dangerous messages embedded in secular culture, because a worldview gives the conceptual tools needed to analyze and critique them. Believers can apply a distinctively biblical perspective every time they pick up the newspaper, watch a movie, or read a book.
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Understanding this profound truth also helps prevent a triumphalistic attitude. I have encountered people who are averse to the concept of Christian worldview because they think it means trying to take over the world and impose our beliefs, top down, on everyone else. This is when we must remind them (and ourselves) that God’s means of salvation was, after all, the cross. He came in humility and human weakness, even submitting to death at the hands of sinners. In
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