Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Randolph Pearceyis an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Nancy Pearcey quotes about
teacher school government
No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
christian school college
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.
believe school hands
In high school, I came to realize I had a second-hand faith, derived from my parents and family background. I had no actual reasons for believing it.
school challenges students
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
party common-sense political
The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.
philosophy materialism blind
Because a human is a someone and not a something, the source of human life must also be a Someone - not the blind, automatic forces of nature, as philosophies like naturalism and materialism tell us.
artist barometer
Artists are often the barometers of society.
views world
The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
way culture artistic-talent
The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture
firsts causes humans
Because humans are capable of choosing, the first cause that created them must have a will.
views robots humbleness
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
support cost demand
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.
giving doubt myopic
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.
attitude gnosticism suffering
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.