Saving Leonardo
by Nancy Pearcey | Book Summary
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Author: Nancy Pearcey
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These life-denying worldviews have radically restructured society — destroying personhood, beauty, freedom, and ultimate truth. However, historic Christianity is a holistic and humane alternative. By tracing the revolutionary thinkers, artists, ideas, and events that led to the rise of secularism, we can see clearly the fragmented and ruinous worldviews for what they are. When we learn to identify the artist's worldview and counter it with a biblical one and create and support art that expresses a Christian worldview, we'll better be able to stem the tide of cultural rot and reach those lost in its grasp. |
Nancy Pearcey, a former agnostic who once studied under Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, is a prolific author and speaker on the Christian worldview. She earned a BA from Iowa State University and an MA in biblical studies from Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO). Pearcey pursued graduate work in philosophy of history at the Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto, Canada) and received an honorary doctorate from Cairn University in 2007.
Previously a visiting scholar at Biola University's Honors Institute, professor of worldview studies at Cairn University, and Francis A. Schaeffer scholar at the World Journalism Institute, Pearcy is currently a professor of apologetics and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University. She has written several books, including Love Thy Body, Total Truth, and Finding Truth, and has published 100+ articles in many well-known and respected publications.
Saving Leonardo
by Nancy Pearcey
[ Book Summary ]
| Author | Nancy Pearcey |
| Publisher | B&H Books |
| Date | September 1, 2017 |
| Pages | 336 |
Overview:
Often, we tell ourselves, 'It's just a movie or just a novel,' failing to see the worldviews and ideas inherent in art, film, music, literature, and architecture. Yet, secular philosophies, beginning in the universities, have disseminated destructive and dehumanizing concepts for millennia. Moreover, their anti-Christian ideas continue to permeate the culture with disastrous consequences.
These life-denying worldviews have radically restructured society — destroying personhood, beauty, freedom, and ultimate truth. However, historic Christianity is a holistic and humane alternative. By tracing the revolutionary thinkers, artists, ideas, and events that led to the rise of secularism, we can see clearly the fragmented and ruinous worldviews for what they are.
When we learn to identify the artist's worldview and counter it with a biblical one and create and support art that expresses a Christian worldview, we'll better be able to stem the tide of cultural rot and reach those lost in its grasp.
Nancy Pearcey, a former agnostic who once studied under Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, is a prolific author and speaker on the Christian worldview. She earned a BA from Iowa State University and an MA in biblical studies from Covenant Theological Seminary (St. Louis, MO). Pearcey pursued graduate work in philosophy of history at the Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto, Canada) and received an honorary doctorate from Cairn University in 2007.
Previously a visiting scholar at Biola University's Honors Institute, professor of worldview studies at Cairn University, and Francis A. Schaeffer scholar at the World Journalism Institute, Pearcy is currently a professor of apologetics and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University. She has written several books, including Love Thy Body, Total Truth, and Finding Truth, and has published 100+ articles in many well-known and respected publications.