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Saving Leonardo : a call to resist the secular assault on mind, morals, & meaning / Nancy Pearcey. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville, Tennessee : B and H Publishing Group, (c)2010.Description: vii, 328 pages : illustration (chiefly color), color portraits ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1433669277
  • 9781433669279
Other title:
  • Call to resist the secular assault on mind, morals, and meaning
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT1103.P359.S285 2010
  • BT1103 .P435 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
EPILOGUE: BACH SCHOOL OF APOLOGETICS.
INTRODUCTION: WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS ; ; ;
PART 1. THE THREAT OF GLOBAL SECULARISM Are you an easy mark? Truth and tyranny Sex, lies, and secularism
PART 2. TWO PATHS TO SECULARISM Crash course on art and worldview Beauty in the eye of the machine (the enlightenment heritage) Art red in tooth and claw (the enlightenment heritage) Romancing the canvas (the Romantic heritage) Escape from nihilism (the Romantic heritage) Morality at the movies
Summary: "Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? ... Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film--voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms. A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives ..."--Dust cover flap.
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EPILOGUE: BACH SCHOOL OF APOLOGETICS.

INTRODUCTION: WHY AMERICANS HATE POLITICS ; ; ;

PART 1. THE THREAT OF GLOBAL SECULARISM Are you an easy mark? Truth and tyranny Sex, lies, and secularism

PART 2. TWO PATHS TO SECULARISM Crash course on art and worldview Beauty in the eye of the machine (the enlightenment heritage) Art red in tooth and claw (the enlightenment heritage) Romancing the canvas (the Romantic heritage) Escape from nihilism (the Romantic heritage) Morality at the movies

"Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? ... Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film--voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms. A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives ..."--Dust cover flap.

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