Total Truth

by Pearcey, Nancy; Johnson, Phillip E.

• ISBN13: 9781581344585
• ISBN10: 1581344589
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Crossway Books

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(6)
Phillip E. Johnson
Introduction	17	(14)
Politics Is Not Enough
Losing Our Children
Heart Versus Brain
Just a Power Grab?
Mental Maps
Not Just Academic
Worldview Training
Acknowledgments
1: What's in a Worldview?
Breaking Out of the Grid	31	(32)
Divided Minds
Bible School Drop-Outs
Subtle Temptation
Enlightenment Idol
Two Cities
Absolutely Divine
Aristotle's Screwdriver
Biblical Toolbox
Read the Directions
Born to Grow Up
A Personal Odyssey
Manifesto of Unbelief
Like a Swiss Farmer
God Wins
Scolds and Scalawags
In Love With Creativity
Christian Philosophers Out of the Closet
Religion: Good for Your Health
Benevolent Empire
Rediscovering Joy	63	(34)
Sealy's Secret
Capitol Hill Guilt
Becoming Bilingual
The Faith Gap
Disconnected Devotion
Christian Schizophrenia
Why Plato Matters
That Rascal Augustine
Aristotle and Aquinas
Fluffs of Grace
The Reformers Rebel
Escape from Dualism
Creation: God's Fingerprints All Over
Fall: Where to Draw the Line
Redemption: After the Great Divorce
Christianity Out of Balance
More Than Sinners
God's Offspring
Jars of Clay
A Higher Consciousness?
The Great Drama
Serving Two Masters
All Together Now
Keeping Religion in Its Place	97	(26)
Reason Unbound
Collateral Damage
Cartesian Divide
Kantian Contradiction
Intellectually Fulfilled Atheists
Secular Leap of Faith
War of Worldviews
Your Worldview Is Too Small
Imperialistic ``Facts''
Conflicted on Campus
Leftovers from Liberalism
Evangelism Today
Spirit of the Age
C. S. Lewis's True Myth
The Whole Truth
Surviving the Spiritual Wasteland	123	(30)
Mystique of the Forbidden
Not a Smokescreen
Hands-On Worldview
Repairing the Ruins
Retooling the Family
For the Love of Children
Mobilizing the Trinity
The Worldview Next Door
Marx's Heresy
Rousseau and Revolution
Sanger's Religion of Sex
Buddhist in the Sky
Worldview Missionaries
2: Starting at the Beginning
Darwin Meets the Berenstain Bears	153	(26)
A Universal Acid
Kindergarten Naturalism
Spinmeisters in Science
Darwin's Beaks
Dysfunctional Fruit Flies
Doctored Moths
Most Famous Fake
Baloney Detectors
Punk Scientists
Birds, Bats, and Bees
Divine Foot in the Door
Evolution Gets Religion
Berkeley to the Rescue
Closed System, Closed Minds
Winning a Place at the Table
What Every Schoolchild Knows
The Science of Common Sense	179	(28)
Little Green Men
Blind Watchmaker?
Marks of Design
Roller Coaster in the Cell
Behe and the Black Box
A Universe Built for You
Cosmic Coincidences
Who Wrote the Genetic Code?
Explanatory Filter
Up from Chance
Against the Law
No Rules for Hamlet
The Medium Is Not the Message
Testing Positive
Three to Get Ready
Christian Relativists
Fairy Dust
Out of the Naturalist's Chair
Today Biology, Tomorrow the World	207	(20)
Universal Darwinism
Evolution for Everyman
Darwinian Fundamentalism on Rape
Mothers Red in Tooth and Claw
Peter Singer's Pet Theme
Darwinizing Culture
The Acid Bites Back
Telling Genes to Jump in the Lake
Mental Maps
Beware Scientists Bearing Values
Dilemma of Leo Strauss
Born-Again Darwinists
The Kitchen As Classroom
Darwins of the Mind	227	(24)
Holmes Loses His Faith
Darwin's New Logic
Cash Value of an Idea
What's Religion Worth to You?
Tough Versus Tender
Disciples of Darwin
Transforming America
Let God Evolve
Why Judges Make Law
Dewey's Dilemmas
Hamstrung Teachers
Inventing Your Own Reality
``Keeping Faith'' with Darwin
Tom Wolfe and Darwin's Doubt
Truth from the Barrel of a Gun
He Is There and He Is Not Silent
The Cognitive War
3: How We Lost Our Minds
What's So Good About Evangelicalism?	251	(22)
Denzel Asked the Deacon
Forward to the Past
Identity Check
And the Winner Is
When Government Help Hurts
Wild West Religion
Riders in the Storm
Frontier Fallout
Whitefield Across America
Heart Versus Head
Defiant Individualism
When America Met Christianity -- Guess Who Won?	273	(22)
Democracy Comes to Church
A Politician for a Priest
Fetters for Our Children?
Half American
Salvation on the Spot
America the Natural
Leapfrogging 1,800 Years
Christians for Jefferson
No Traffic Cop
Self-Made People
Preacher, Performer, Storyteller
Celebrity Style
In PR We Trust
Pulling Strings
Not a Rogues' Gallery
Rise of the Sovereign Self
Evangelicals' Two-Story Truth	295	(30)
Scotch Tip
The Science of Scripture
Campbell's Rationalist Soup
Old Books for Modern Man
Sola Scriptura?
The View from Nowhere
Becoming Double-Minded
A Science of Duty
Celestial Mathematician
Blinded by Bacon
Religion on the Side
Making Sense of Common Sense
Reid Romans 1
Colors and Shapes
Just a Habit?
Are You Nobody?
Mere Chemistry?
Disinformation Minister
Philosophical ``Cheating''
Signs of Intelligent Life
Boxed-In Believers
How Women Started the Culture War	325	(26)
Women and the Awakening
Households At Work
Communal Manhood
Home as Haven
Why Men Left Home
The Passionate Male
Taming Men
Feminizing the Church
Morals and Mercy
Female Standards, Male Resentment
Manly Men
Romper Room Dads
Feminist Fury
What Hath Woman Lost?
Remoralizing America
No Double Standard
Reconstituting the Home
Private and Personal
Blueprint for Living
4: What Next? Living It Out
True Spirituality and Christian Worldview	351	(46)
Wurmbrand's Freedom
Schaeffer's Crisis
Idols of the Heart
Theology of the Cross
Rejected, Slain, Raised
Life-Producing Machines
His Work, His Way
Gold, Silver, Precious Stones
Results Guaranteed
Marketing the Message
More Money, More Ministry
Operating Instructions
From Good to Great
Loving Enough to Confront
No Little People
Real Leaders Serve
Getting It Right by Doing It ``Wrong''
True Spirituality
Appendices
Appendix 1 How American Politics Became Secularized	381	(4)
Appendix 2 Modern Islam and the New Age Movement	385	(4)
Appendix 3 The Long War Between Materialism and Christianity	389	(4)
Appendix 4 Isms on the Run: Practical Apologetics at L'Abri	393	(4)
Notes	397	(54)
Recommended Reading	451	(16)
Index	467