Saving Leonardo - Nancy Pearcey

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Auteur(s) : Nancy Pearcey

Editeur : B&h Publishing Group

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 336

Expédition : 813

Dimensions : 25.4 x 17.7 x 2.2

ISBN : 146278772X

Résumé :

Award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth) makes a case for biblical Christianity in defense of art, life, and liberty in this growing age of cultural secularism. Includes more than 100 art reproductions.

Biographie:

Nancy Pearcey is professor of Worldview Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University and editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report. Formerly an agnostic, she studied Christian worldview at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland with Francis Schaeffer in the 1970s and was later named the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar at the World Journalism Institute in New York City. There she taught a worldview course based on her 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Awardwinning book, Total Truth. Pearcey also founded the daily radio program BreakPoint, wrote a monthly column in Christianity Today magazine for five years, and coauthored Charles Colson's book, How Now Shall We Live? She and her husband have two sons.

Sommaire:

Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing.

Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film--voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms.

A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives. Whether you are a devoted Christian, determined secularist, or don't know quite where you stand, reading Saving Leonardo will unsettle established views and topple ideological idols. Includes more than 100 art reproductions and illustrations that bring the book's themes to life.

Praise for Saving Leonardo:

A feast for the mind and for the eye. Nancy Pearcey not only is a trustworthy guide for a nuanced discussion on the relationship between culture and the gospel, but she is a gifted teacher as well . . . Saving Leonardo is a rare, precious gift to the churches and universities alike.

Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture

Nancy Pearcey has done it again and better than ever. She has taken the complex sophistication of the best cultural analysis and laid it out for any person to grasp, enjoy and use to live out their daily lives honoring Christ. An astounding accomplishment!

James W. Sire, author of The Universe Next Door

G. K. Chesterton said 'the danger when Men stop believing in God is not that they'll believe in nothing...