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    Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
    Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
    Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
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    Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

    Written by Nancy Pearcey

    Narrated by Pamela Klein

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    Don't think, just believe?

    That's the mantra in many circles today - whether the church, the classroom, the campus, or the voting booth.
     Nancy Pearcey, best-selling and critically acclaimed author, offers fresh tools to break free from presumed certainties and test them against reality. In Finding Truth, she explains five powerful principles that penetrate to the core of any worldview - secular or religious - to uncover its deepest motivations and weigh its claims.
     A former agnostic, Pearcey demonstrates that a robust Christian worldview matches reality - that it is not only true but attractive, granting higher dignity to the human person than any alternative.
      Finding Truth displays Pearcey's well-earned reputation for clear and cogent writing. She brings themes to life with personal stories and real-world examples.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOasis Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2015
    ISBN9781621884781
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    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
      Fantastic!! Succinctly yet so simply done. I love it! Y

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    • 5/5
      Great book! It's a book you should read more than once. It also has a study guide in the back that will help to internalize the material.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      While 'Love Thy Body' was excellent, this book is only average.

      It provides a good basis on why Christianity is superior to all other ... ISM'S, but it dives in at a level which is too high for the average Christian reader and does not really explain the individual concepts. I do not expect a detailed explanation, but some basic information (when did the movement / religion start, where, how ...]. Especially when people today predominantly listen to such audiobooks, they cannot be expected to stop the book every few minutes and go to Wikipedia in order to get the info there.

      Here is e.g. her full explanation of Gnosticism:

      Gnosticism taught that the world was so evil that it could not be the creation of the highest, supreme deity but must be the handiwork of an evil sub-deity. The supreme God would not demean himself by mucking about with matter. Gnosticism denigrated the physical body as the “prison house of the soul.” The goal of salvation was to escape from the physical realm and leave it behind.

      4 sentences are definitely not enough to provide at least a basic understanding of the concept.

      She quotes also a lot of highly problematic teachers and should seriously consider to take some lessons on discernment. This is sadly a widespread problem in modern Christianity, that authors who have little knowledge in discernment are shaping our theology. We willingly consume great teachings from authors such as Nancy, but at the same time are constantly being directed by the very same authors into highly problematic teachings of other teachers, such as C.S. Lewis, Dallas Willard, Ravi Zacharias, Timothy Keller, William Lane Craig ...

      Overall a book that can be recommended, to be read with extra discernment.
    • 5/5
      Where Van Til and Bahnsen are the philosophy reads behind presuppositional apologetics, Pearcey is the application portion. As of the date of this review, this is probably the most up to date writing on the topic and includes a lot of current issues. If you've read anything by Francis Schaeffer, you'll get a taste of him in this writing.

      Pearcey has a very simple and well thought out process using Romans 1 to witness to people on a presuppositional/worldview level. Her theory is sound and her examples are numerous and well explained. This isn't going to go over someone's head but some effort will have to be put into the process.

      Only a few times did I have to question her conclusions however they were more on the level of jumping to certain conclusions without proving them first.

      Pearcey provides accurate counter-Christian worldviews and quotes some very interesting quotes from scholars on the other side.

      I would still say that Dr. Jason Lisle's book "Ultimate Proof of Creation" is the best primer for presup./worldview apologetics. I would say "Finding Truth" would be an excellent follow up. Since both use Bahnsen as their basis, they overlap each other quite nicely.

      I still have yet to see an argument that goes against presuppositional/worldview apologetics and Pearcey provides even more tools for a biblical Christian to use.
    • 5/5
      Wonderful study material to understand philosophical worldviews and how to respond from a Christian perspective. Pearcey is recognized as a leading thinker in modern evangelicalism, but deserves a much higher profile than she has so far attained. Brilliant author!