Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Randolph Pearceyis an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview...
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Nancy Pearcey quotes about
views world
The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.
feelings mind world
Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
trying world facts
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts
trying world might
A part is always too limited to explain the whole. You might picture a worldview as trying to stuff the entire universe into a box. Invariably, something will stick out of the box. Its categories are too "small" to explain the world.
classroom monopoly worldview
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
among discover dominant empirical far holds humans science scientific typical visit worldview
Visit a typical science classroom and you will discover far more than empirical facts being taught. The dominant worldview among scientific intellectuals is evolutionary naturalism, which holds that humans are essentially biochemical machines.
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.
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.