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Jag läste en bokrecension idag. Boken har jag alltså inte läst ännu men den verkar så lovande att jag inte kan vänta med att rekommendera den. Det handlar om boken Total Truth – Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity författad av Nancy Pearcey. Recensenten skriver:

An evangelical Christian who works on Capitol Hill once told me that God put him there just so he could share the gospel with his colleagues. Sadly, he’s not alone in thinking that God cares only about saving souls, and is uninterested in the legislative battles raging in Congress, much less in renewing the culture through the arts, academia, and entertainment.
True, most orthodox Christians think that God hates abortion and is not so thrilled about same-sex marriage. But beyond those “culture-war” issues, many of them have no idea that their faith has implications for all public policies, from welfare to transportation to taxation. They are privately spiritual, but publicly agnostic. Nancy Pearcey’s new book, Total Truth, was written to shake them up. …

Pearcey seeks to uproot the historic anti-intellectual tendencies of American evangelicalism that have contributed to its banishment from the public square. She traces the long tradition in American evangelicalism of emphasizing the spiritual dimension and denigrating the intellect.

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