Learn how to confidently defend Biblical truth in this practical training manual on Christian apologetics.
Studies find that the most frequent reason for rejecting Christianity is that people could not get answers to their doubts. Finding Truth unpacks strategic principles that penetrate to the core of any perspective, to uncover its deepest motivations and weigh its claims.
Using critical thinking and biblical references, this apologetic book:
• Equips you with skills for testing other worldviews
• Gives you confidence and strategies to answer doubts & questions
• Presents Christianity as true and more attractive than other alternatives
Complete with an interactive study guide, Pearcey reveals that the certainties everyone is seeking are not found in God substitutes – but in Christianity and faith in Jesus. Nancy Pearcey is author of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity and the 2000 ECPA Gold Medallion Award winner (coauthored by Harold Fickett and Chuck Colson) How Now Shall We Live? Formerly an agnostic, Pearcey studied under Francis Schaeffer at L'Abri. She earned an MA from Covenant Theological Seminary and pursued further graduate work in History of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. Heralded as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual" (The Economist), Pearcey is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University. She is a fellow of the Discovery Institute and editor-at-large of The Pearcey Report. As founding editor of BreakPoint, she also coauthored a monthly column with Chuck Colson in Christianity Today. Pearcey has contributed to several books and published more than a hundred articles. She has spoken in the US Capitol and the White House; at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, and Dartmouth; to actors in Hollywood and artists in New York City; on NPR and C-SPAN. Her earlier books include The Soul of Science and Saving Leonardo. "Nancy Pearcey at her best-totally profound, persuasive, and yet practical. Read it with your highlighter handy!"
- Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling Author "Describes my life as an atheist perfectly … If I'd read this book as a young man, I think I would have been challenged to re-examine my views much earlier."
- J. Warner Wallace, Author, Cold-Case Christianity "Dismantles humanism, atheism, reductionism, and every other ism … Pearcey's arguments combined with the Gospel of Jesus leave all other worldviews outside of Christianity without a leg to stand on."
- Phil Robertson, Duck Dynasty "A great book … Nancy Pearcey has been to the church what Francis Schaeffer was to the believers of his day: a cultural intellectual who provides careful, thoughtful, and well-researched critiques … I highly recommend this delightful book."
- J.P. Moreland, Professor of Philosophy, Biola University "Deftly exposes the inconsistencies and the failures of a host of modern idols."
-Paul Copan, Professor of Philosophy, Palm Beach Atlantic University "We live in a culture beset by the twin dragons of modernism and postmodernism. Nancy Pearcey draws a sword and cuts their heads off … Totally readable."
-Doug TenNapel, Creator, Earthworm Jim "Secular worldviews have become the intellectual fast-food of our day-nice taste, no nourishment … This book ought to be in the survival kit of every student heading off to college."
- John R. Erickson, Author, Hank the Cowdog "Pearcey has done it again … shows how biblical truth is both more convincing than competing worldviews, and also more appealing."
-Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Founder, The Veritas Forum "Wonderfully insightful … helps readers avoid becoming 'intoxicated' with idols
