How Now Shall We Live?
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Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions—Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?—but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's bankrupt worldviews and to restore and redeem every aspect of contemporary culture: family, education, ethics, work, law, politics, science, art, music. This book will change every Christian who reads it. It will change the church in the new millennium.
Top Highlights
“Understanding Christianity as a total life system is absolutely essential, for two reasons. First, it enables us to make sense of the world we live in and thus order our lives more rationally. Second, it enables us to understand forces hostile to our faith, equipping us to evangelize and to defend Christian truth as God’s instruments for transforming culture.” (source)
“Genuine Christianity is more than a relationship with Jesus, as expressed in personal piety, church attendance, Bible study, and works of charity. It is more than discipleship, more than believing a system of doctrines about God. Genuine Christianity is a way of seeing and comprehending all reality. It is a worldview.” (source)
“The Christian must be ready to separate genuine science from philosophy. Evolution, as it is typically presented in textbooks and museums, confuses the two, presenting as ‘science’ what is actually naturalistic philosophy. Indeed, many secular scientists insist that only naturalistic explanations qualify as science.” (source)
“In the broadest categories, the conflict of our day is theism versus naturalism. Theism is the belief that there is a transcendent God who created the universe; naturalism is the belief that natural causes alone are sufficient to explain everything that exists. The most fundamental questions reflect these categories: Is ultimate reality God or the cosmos? Is there a supernatural realm, or is nature all that exists? Has God spoken and revealed his truth to us, or is truth something we have to find, even invent, for ourselves? Is there a purpose to our lives, or are we cosmic accidents emerging from the slime?” (source)
Product Details
- Title : How Now Shall We Live?
- Authors:
- Colson, Charles
- Pearcey, Nancy
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
- Publication Date: 2011
- ISBN: 9781414322421
Reviews
1 rating
Chris Reighley
10/18/2022
Read this as part of the Colson Fellows program. Wow, Chuch Colson nailed it. Our Christian Worldview is the way! I am afraid today that many Christians don't understand their worldview. Very enlightening book. If you are looking to understand what we are up against as Christians, it is a worldview issue, and this will be a great resource to examine that.
