Total Truth

While visiting John and Margie Keiser a while back (Matthew's parents), I noticed a book lying on an end table. I picked it up, browsed through it and concluded it would be worth reading. John Keiser was studying the book in a medical group he belongs to and recommended it to me. The book is Total Truth by Nancy Pearcey.

I purchased the book and am a little over half finished with it. It is a "World View" book along the lines of Francis Schaeffer's Trilogy, "The God Who is There," "Escape from Reason," and "He is There and He is Not Silent." Like Schaeffer's books, Total Truth is difficult reading in places, but is well worth the effort and I highly recommend it. It provides an analysis of the alternative world views impacting our culture and a path forward for reclaiming our culture for Christ.

Here is a synopsis of Total Truth...
Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and education? Or is religion a private matter only—personally comforting but publicly irrelevant?

In today’s cultural etiquette, it is not considered polite to mix public and private, or sacred and secular. This division is the single most potent force keeping Christianity contained in the private sphere—stripping it of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.

In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcey offers a razor-sharp analysis of the public/private split, explaining how it hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal. Ultimately it reflects a division in the concept of truth itself, which functions as a gatekeeper, ruling Christian principles out of bounds in the public arena.

How can we unify our fragmented lives and recover spiritual power? With examples from the lives of real people, past and present, Pearcey teaches readers how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity. She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for crafting a full-orbed Christian worldview.

Finally, she makes a passionate case that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality. It is total truth.