How Now Shall We Live?

by Colson, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780842355889
• ISBN10: 084235588X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: TYNDALE

Summary

$lt;B>2000 Gold Medallion Award winner!$lt;/B>$lt;br>Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that answers life's basic questions and shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. $lt;I>How Now Shall We Live?$lt;/I>equips Christians to confront false worldviews and live redemptively in contemporary culture.

Author Biography

Charles Colson is a popular and widely known author, speaker, and radio commentator. A former presidential aide to Richard Nixon and founder of the international ministry Prison Fellowship, he has written several books, including Born Again, Loving God, Kingdoms in Conflict, and The Body, that have shaped Christian thinking on a variety of subjects. In 1993 Colson was awarded the prestigious Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, given for extraordinary leadership and originality in advancing humanity's understanding of God. Nancy Pearcey is policy director of the Wilberforce Forum, executive editor of Chuck Colson's daily radio program BreakPoint, and coauthor of Colson's monthly column in Christianity Today. She is also a fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal for Science and Culture, and managing editor of the journal Origins and Design. Pearcey's expertise in worldview analysis began when she studied under Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland in the early 1970s.

Table of Contents

Introduction---How Now Shall We Live?	ix
PART ONE WORLDVIEW: WHY IT MATTERS
A New Creation	3	(10)
Christianity Is a Worldview	13	(6)
Worldviews in Conflict	19	(8)
Christian Truth in an Age of Unbelief	27	(14)
PART TWO CREATION: WHERE DID WE COME FROM, AND WHO ARE WE?
Dave and Katy's Metaphysical Adventure	41	(10)
Shattering the Grid	51	(6)
Let's Start at the Very Beginning	57	(12)
Life in a Test Tube?	69	(12)
Darwin in the Dock	81	(10)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea	91	(10)
A Matter of Life	101	(16)
Whatever Happened to Human Life?	117	(12)
In Whose Image?	129	(12)
God Makes No Mistakes	141	(6)
PART THREE THE FALL: WHAT HAS GONE WRONG WITH THE WORLD?
The Trouble with Us	147	(4)
A Better Way of Living?	151	(16)
Synanon and Sin	167	(8)
We're All Utopians Now	175	(10)
The Face of Evil	185	(8)
A Snake in the Garden	193	(10)
Does Suffering Make Sense?	203	(14)
PART FOUR REDEMPTION: WHAT CAN WE DO TO FIX IT?
Good Intentions	217	(8)
In Search of Redemption	225	(6)
Does It Liberate?	231	(6)
Salvation through Sex?	237	(8)
Is Science Our Savior?	245	(8)
The Drama of Despair	253	(10)
That New Age Religion	263	(10)
Real Redemption	273	(10)
PART FIVE RESTORATION: HOW NOW SHALL WE LIVE?
The Knockout Punch	283	(10)
Saved to What?	293	(14)
Don't Worry, Be Religious	307	(10)
God's Training Ground	317	(14)
Still at Risk	331	(14)
Anything Can Happen Here	345	(16)
There Goes the Neighborhood	361	(12)
Creating the Good Society	373	(10)
The Work of Our Hands	383	(14)
The Ultimate Appeal	397	(22)
The Basis for True Science	419	(12)
Blessed Is the Man	431	(8)
Soli Deo Gloria	439	(16)
Touched by a Miracle	455	(10)
Does the Devil Have All the Good Music?	465	(12)
How Now Shall We Live?	477	(12)
With Gratitude	489	(4)
Notes	493	(52)
Recommended Reading	545	(16)
Index	561	(14)
About the Authors	575	(4)
Study Guides	579