I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all. Nancy Pearcey More Quotes by Nancy Pearcey More Quotes From Nancy Pearcey To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences. Nancy Pearcey consequencephrasesidols For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion. Nancy Pearcey male-dominancemaleslevels In many cases students are never exposed to competing ideas within their families, churches, or Christian schools, and as a result they go out into the world unprepared for the intellectual battles they are about to encounter, especially on secular college campuses. Nancy Pearcey collegechristianschool The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally. Nancy Pearcey demandsupportcost Many journalists are influenced by a myopic multiculturalism that is suspicious of anything Western, while giving the benefit of the doubt to non-Western societies. Nancy Pearcey myopicdoubtgiving Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. Nancy Pearcey jargonliterary-theoryliterature Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information Nancy Pearcey dataclassideas Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day. Nancy Pearcey knowingstepsfirsts During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Nancy Pearcey easterchristianjesus The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture Nancy Pearcey artistic-talentcultureway America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power. Nancy Pearcey informationpoliticalamerica In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference. Nancy Pearcey gnosticismsufferingattitude Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits. Nancy Pearcey leavinggivingfall When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding. Nancy Pearcey moralchristianwonder The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes. Nancy Pearcey viewsworld Artists are often the barometers of society. Nancy Pearcey barometerartist In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture. Nancy Pearcey historicaloddsreligious The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity. Nancy Pearcey socialchristianstones We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles. Nancy Pearcey blockintellectualprinciples A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science. Nancy Pearcey materialisticregimesdoe
