“Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.” PeopleChristianityUniversalWesternIndigenousIndigenous PeopleIdiom Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.” FirstsAgeChurchChristianityMiddleIntellectualWestUniversityParisEmpiresMiddle AgesRoman EmpireOxfordCambridgeRoman CivilizationCambridge University Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Atheists often denounce Christianity as harsh and negative. But in reality it offers a much more positive view of the human person than any competing religion or worldview. It is so appealing that adherents of other worldviews keep free-loading the parts they like best.” HumansPersonsRealityViewsChristianityOffersNegativeAtheistHarshCompetingWorldview Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
“I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.” KnowsAnswersChristianityAdultsDecidedAskingAgnostic Author:Nancy Pearcey
“I discovered that Christianity does have the resources to meet the challenges posed by competing worldviews after all.” DoeChallengesChristianityResourcesCompetingWorldview Author:Nancy Pearcey
“The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.” NeedsDoeSaidMatterWholeRealityTodayBeliefReligiousChristianitySacredConvincedLionsPreacherSplitsSecularCagesBaptistsCagedAccommodationsPersonal BeliefsReligious TruthSpurgeon Author:Nancy Pearcey
