Total Truth

Posted on July 8, 2008
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\"Total Truth Book\" Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from It’s Cultural Captivity, is a great book that I am reading again, that is very helpful and practical in fully developing a worldview.

Nancy Pearcey affirms that Christianity has a legitimate role to play in every area of our culture and not just regulated to the private realm of faith and feelings.

She makes a compelling claim that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality.

In explaining where to begin to develop a Christian worldview, Pearcey writes:

In Genesis, God gives what we might call the first job description: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.” The first phrase, “be fruitful and multiply,” means to develop the social world: build families, churches, schools, cities, governments, laws. The second phrase, “subdue the earth,” means to harness the natural world: plant crops, build bridges, design computers, compose music.

This means that our vocation or professional work is not a second-class activity, something we do just to put food on the table. It is a high calling for which we originally created. The way we serve a Creator God is by being creative with the talents and gifts He has given us.

Additionally, Pearcey offers a balanced response when engaging culture:

When they only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding. Our first response to the great works of human culture, whether in art or technology or economic productivity, should be to celebrate them as reflections of God’s own creativity. And even when we analyze where they go wrong, it should be in a spirit of love.

Today, Christian activists are quick to organize a boycott or pressure a politician to de-fund some artistic group, and these strategies have their place. But how many reach out to the artists with compassion? How many do the hard work of crafting real answers to the questions they are raising? How many cry out to God on behalf of people struggling in the coils of false worldviews?

The best way to drive out a bad worldview is by offering a good one, and Christians need to move beyond criticizing culture to creating culture.

This was just a snippet of the many insightful points that are helping me respond to alternative worldviews and to also give a reasonable response for the hope that I embrace.

C.Harv

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One Response to “Total Truth”

  1. bigdaddyjerNo Gravatar on July 10th, 2008 2:43 pm

    Sounds like a good read.

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