Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate… — Nancy Pearcey Ceremony Copy Share Image
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia. — Nancy Pearcey Creation Copy Share Image
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey Christianity Copy Share Image
Americans have grown impatient with the relentless politicizing of every area of life. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard people work to suppress their knowledge of God, creation itself keeps challenging them. “Human life is a continual… — Nancy Pearcey Creation Copy Share Image
America has always welcomed anyone willing to assimilate to its national character. But radical Islam rejects assimilation and is bent on the… — Nancy Pearcey America Copy Share Image
“Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it… — Nancy Pearcey Biblical truth Copy Share Image
In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they… — Nancy Pearcey Battle Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Age Copy Share Image
“This biblical view has two crucial implications. First, the intelligible order of the universe reflects the mind of the Creator. Second, because… — Nancy Pearcey Bible Copy Share Image
“Christian’s motive in apologetics should be a God-inspired grief for the lost. We should be brokenhearted over the dehumanizing reductionisms that dishonor… — Nancy Pearcey Apologetics Copy Share Image
“Christianity explains why truth is not merely a human construction. The world is not a creation of my own mind. It is… — Nancy Pearcey Christianity Copy Share Image
“Religion is no longer considered the source of serious truth claims that could potentially conflict with public agendas. The private realm has… — Nancy Pearcey Religion Copy Share Image
“postmodernists are just as concerned about objective truth as anyone else. Dallas Willard comments, “I have noticed that the most emphatic of… — Nancy Pearcey Life Copy Share Image
“When God redeems us, He releases us from the guilt and power of sin, and restores us to our full humanity, so… — Nancy Pearcey Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Redemption consists primarily of casting out our mental idols and turning back to the true God. And when we do that, we… — Nancy Pearcey Change Copy Share Image
“Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know… — Nancy Pearcey Beginning Copy Share Image
When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and… — Nancy Pearcey Angry Copy Share Image
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less… — Nancy Pearcey Church Copy Share Image
“Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel… — Nancy Pearcey Books Copy Share Image
“Our vocation is not something we do for God- which would put the burden on us to perform and achieve. Instead, it… — Nancy Pearcey Career Copy Share Image
America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Anything we must assume in order to function in the world is part of general revelation. The undeniable facts of experience reflect… — Nancy Pearcey Human nature Copy Share Image
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
The word 'tolerance' once meant we all have the right to argue rationally for our deepest convictions in the public arena. Now… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“Most of the early modern scientists were Christians; they believed that matter was *not* preexisting, but had come from the hand of… — Nancy Pearcey Christianity Copy Share Image
“And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but… — Nancy Pearcey Goals Copy Share Image
“The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons," author writes, conveying the sentiments of… — Nancy Pearcey Books Copy Share Image
Christians must go beyond criticizing the degradation of American culture, roll up their sleeves, and get to work on positive solutions. The… — Nancy Pearcey American culture Copy Share Image
A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part… — Nancy Pearcey Abstract Copy Share Image
“People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters… — Nancy Pearcey Doubt Copy Share Image
