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Pearcey, Nancy.

Total truth : liberating Christianity from its cultural captivity / Nancy R. Pearcey ; foreword by Phillip E. Johnson.

Wheaton, Ill. : Crossway Books, ©2004.

479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Discusses the divide between the secular and sacred in the lives of Christians, and offers practical advice on how to craft a biblically based worldview, looking at Darwinism as opposed to the concept of Intelligent Design, considering why evangelicals do not have a strong worldview tradition, and discussing the practical and personal applications of a Christian worldview.

Christianity -- Philosophy.

Apologetics.

Christian life.

History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

History -- Philosophy.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-465) and index.

Introduction -- What's in a worldview? Breaking out of the grid -- Rediscovering joy -- Keeping religion in its place -- Surviving the spiritual wasteland -- Starting at the beginning. -- Darwin meets the Berenstain Bears -- The science of common sense -- Today biology, tomorrow the world -- Darwins of the mind -- 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 -- What next? Living it out. True spirituality and Christian worldview -- Appendices. -- How American politics became secularized -- Modern Islam and the New Age Movement -- The long war between materialism and Christianity -- Isms on the run : practical apologetics at L'Abri.

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