Love Thy Body, Nancy R.  Pearcey
Love Thy Body, Nancy R.  Pearcey
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Love Thy Body
Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality

Author: Nancy R. Pearcey

Narrator: Ann Richardson

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/02/2018


Synopsis

Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? Does abortion lead to equality for women? Does homosexuality contradict our biological sex?In Love Thy Body, bestselling and award-winning author Nancy Pearcey takes on the hard questions about life and sexuality. She offers a respectful but riveting exposé of the secular worldview that lies behind trendy slogans and political talking points. A former agnostic, Pearcey is a sensitive guide to the secular ideas that shape current debates. She empowers readers to intelligently and compassionately engage today’s most controversial moral and social challenges.In a surprise shattering of stereotypes, Pearcey demonstrates that while secularism promises much, in reality it delivers little. She turns the tables on stereotypes that portray Christianity as harsh and bigoted, and invites a fresh look at its holistic, life-affirming principles: it is a worldview that matches the real world and fits with human experience.All along, Pearcey keeps readers entranced with gripping stories of real people wrestling with hard questions in their own lives—sharing their pain, their struggles, and their triumphs.

About Nancy R. Pearcey

A two-time winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion Award, Nancy R. Pearcy has been hailed in The Economist as “America’s pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual.” A bestselling author and speaker who serves as professor of apologetics and scholar in residence at Houston Baptist University, Pearcey is also editor at large of The Pearcey Report and a fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Previous positions include visiting scholar at Biola University’s Torrey Honors Institute, professor of worldview studies at Cairn University, and the Francis A. Schaeffer scholar at the World Journalism Institute. She is coauthor with Chuck Colson of How Now Shall We Live? and author of the 2005 ECPA Gold Medallion Award-winner Total Truth, The Soul of Science, Saving Leonardo, and most recently Finding Truth.

About Ann Richardson

Ann Richardson is an Earphones-winning narrator who studied broadcast journalism and Spanish at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Years later, the desire to take up a creative yet productive career lead her to narrating audiobooks and founding Great Plains Audiobooks, an audiobook publishing company focusing on bringing Midwestern literature to audio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hope on December 27, 2017

As post–gay Christian, I was interested in how Nancy Pearcey would navigate the muddy waters of faith, sexuality, and gender in her new book “Love Thy Body.” I loved how Pearcey laid the groundwork from based on “the choice of affirming or rejecting the goodness of God’s intended design for our bodi......more

Goodreads review by Douglas on January 14, 2018

I have enjoyed everything of Pearcey's that I have read, and this one is no exception. She is doing great work in keeping Schaeffer's analysis of our cultural deterioration ever relevant, keeping it current with the contemporary craziness. This book is about the modern and postmodern hostility to th......more

Goodreads review by Becky on October 08, 2018

This is not a book you can choose to read or not. The times in which we are living force us to read it. We, Christians, must prepare our minds to action, to think through the social issues we are facing each day in a biblical and logical way, and this book is fantastic starting point The only reason......more

Goodreads review by Jarrett on May 19, 2021

This book is definitely a mixed bag. It maintains a high view of the human person throughout, but it takes a sharp nose-dive towards the end of the book into Rod Dreher-esque fear-mongering (which is always based upon a confused equating of “Western Civilization” with the Church). “Love Thy Body” suf......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 26, 2017

As part of the launch team for Love Thy Body, by Nancy Pearcey, I have been reading this new book for the last four weeks or so. I learned a lot. It is challenging to read, stretching my mind. I feel like I have come upon the scene of a horrible catastrophe (earthquake, hurricane, plane crash, ...)......more


Quotes

“Wonderful guide.” Sam Allberry, author of Is God Anti-Gay?

“Liberal secularist ideology rests on a mistake, and Nancy Pearcey in her terrific new book puts her finger right on it. In embracing abortion, euthanasia, homosexual conduct and relationships, transgenderism, and the like, liberal secularism…is philosophically as well as theologically untenable.” Robert P. George, Princeton University

“A must-read.” Rosaria Butterfield, former professor, Syracuse University; author, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert

“Unmasks the far-reaching practical consequences of mind-body dualism better than anyone I have ever seen.” Jennifer Roback Morse, founder and president, the Ruth Institute