Finding Truth - by Nancy Pearcey (Paperback)

About the Book

This apologetics book for a new generation teaches a biblically based, straightforward approach to conversations with atheists, skeptics, and seekers about why the truths they long for can be found only in Christianity.

Book Synopsis

This apologetics book for a new generation teaches a biblically based, straightforward approach to conversations with atheists, skeptics, and seekers about why the truths they long for can be found only in Christianity.

From former agnostic Nancy Pearcey, this real-world apologetics book offers a five-part strategy for answering the claims of any worldview.

Christians can feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of competing worldviews in today's pluralistic society. But we do not have to memorize a new argument to answer every possible perspective. In Finding Truth, Nancy Pearcey provides five biblically based principles that cut to the heart of any worldview while making a compelling and attractive case for Christianity.

This highly engaging and practical book:

• Equips you to respectfully respond to atheists and skeptics with a single apologetics approach
• Challenges the assumption that faith means we stop thinking and "just believe"
• Explores why the bedrock truths we long for are found only in historic Christianity
• Helps us see how the Bible gives us the resources we need to think critically about any system of ideas so we can speak about Jesus with confidence

Rich with personal stories and modern-day examples, Finding Truth is a training manual to help you make the case for Christianity in a post-Christian world. As Pearcey reminds us, the most common reason people give for rejecting Christianity is that they can't find satisfying answers to their doubts. Finding Truth offers those answers and helps you articulate them so that you can say along with Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel."

Review Quotes

"As Pearcey (author of the 2005 classic Total Truth) so ably points out, both explicitly and through poignant real-life stories, "finding truth" is not a dry intellectual exercise ... She leads the reader step-by-step through these principles in an accessible way, providing concrete examples ... This book would make a fantastic graduation gift for high school seniors, especially those on their way to college ... I hope that Christians might pass on copies of Finding Truth to non-Christians, who might find Pearcey's analysis of secular worldviews convincing and her presentation of Christianity appealing."
Christianity Today-- "Christianity Today" (4/28/2015 12:00:00 AM)

"Scholarly but fully accessible ... Pearcey surveys the various idols upon which the various schools of modernism and postmodernism have built their systems: reason, imagination, economics, matter ... Just as Paul warns that those who serve idols will exchange the glory of the immortal God for the images of animals, so Pearcey warns that worldviews that begin with a false staring point inevitably end up reducing man from a free individual made in God's image to a determined and dehumanized unit in nature ... A full, carefully-nuanced exposé of the bankrupt, dead-end nature of materialism ... A splendid coup d'état."
--Hope's Reason: A Journal of Apologetics-- "Hope's Reason" (4/28/2015 12:00:00 AM)

"Finding Truth is a seminar between two covers, providing depth of information and guidance toward an informed faith through the Study Guide offered at the end. Its goal--helping the reader to communicate Christian convictions--leads the Christian to think, to study, and to interact with ideas. Sure to facilitate powerful discussion, the study questions at the end will develop critical thinking skills and flex spiritual muscles. Pearcey's wonderfully readable style makes it a resource for anyone serious about discovering truth. Woven throughout are stories of people such as Dr. Michael Egnor (a leading brain surgeon), acclaimed hip-hop artist Lecrae Moore, and Pearcey's own journey to faith, that make the book fascinating and real."--Marilyn Stewart "Defend Magazine" (3/17/2015 12:00:00 AM)

"Pearcey promises that the principles she lays out will 'provide you with the tools to recognize what's right and wrong with any worldview--and then to craft a biblically informed perspective that is both true and humane.' She makes the promise and she delivers on it. Finding Truth is, all-in-all, a worthy successor to Total Truth."
--Challies.com--Tim Challies "www.challies.com" (3/2/2015 12:00:00 AM)

About the Author

Nancy Pearcey is the award-winning author of numerous books including How Now Shall We Live? with Charles Colson and Harold Fickett, The Toxic War on Masculinity, and Total Truth. Heralded as "America's preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual" (The Economist), Pearcey is a professor of apologetics and scholar-in-residence at Houston Christian University.