Quote

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.

Nancy Pearcey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Nancy Pearcey
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: January 1
Author
Philosopher
Nancy Randolph Pearcey
Derived
Hands
Second
Background
School
Realizing
Believing
Reason
Parent
Backgrounds
Believe
Hand
Actual
Came
High
Reasons
Faith
Realize
Family
Parents

More quotes by Nancy Pearcey

Image
Materialists try to live in the lower story NON-MATERIAL WORLD Subjective, Superstitious, Mental Constructs MATERIAL WORLD Objective, Scientific, Knowable Facts
Nancy Pearcey
Image
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.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
When people commit themselves to a certain vision of reality, it becomes their ultimate explainer. It serves to interpret the universe for them, to guide their moral decisions, to give meaning and purpose to life, and all the other functions normally associated with a religion.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of the real world.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
All of science is largely formalized common sense.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
If people deny free will, then when ordering at a restaurant they should say, Just bring me whatever the laws of nature have determined that I will get.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
When we encounter the world of ideas for the first time, we easily get overwhelmed. Scripture is telling us, 'Don't be distracted by the details. Cut to the core by asking, What is its idol?' Whatever functions as its God substitute will shape everything else.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
Image
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Nancy Pearcey
Image
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.
Nancy Pearcey