Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

by Nancy Pearcey

Overview

This apologetics book for a new generation teaches a biblically based, straightforward approach to conversations with atheists, skeptics, and seekers about why the truths they long for can be found only in Christianity.
 
From former agnostic Nancy Pearcey, this real-world apologetics book offers a five-part strategy for answering the claims of any worldview.
 
Christians can feel overwhelmed at the sheer number of competing worldviews in today’s pluralistic society. But we do not have to memorize a new argument to answer every possible perspective. In Finding Truth, Nancy Pearcey provides five biblically based principles that cut to the heart of any worldview while making a compelling and attractive case for Christianity.
 
This highly engaging and practical book:
 

• Equips you to respectfully respond to atheists and skeptics with a single apologetics approach
• Challenges the assumption that faith means we stop thinking and “just believe”
• Explores why the bedrock truths we long for are found only in historic Christianity
• Helps us see how the Bible gives us the resources we need to think critically about any system of ideas so we can speak about Jesus with confidence

 
Rich with personal stories and modern-day examples, Finding Truth is a training manual to help you make the case for Christianity in a post-Christian world. As Pearcey reminds us, the most common reason people give for rejecting Christianity is that they can’t find satisfying answers to their doubts. Finding Truth offers those answers and helps you articulate them so that you can say along with Paul, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780830788002
Publisher:	David C Cook
Publication date:	07/02/2024
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Nancy Pearcey is the award-winning author of numerous books including How Now Shall We Live? with Charles Colson and Harold Fickett, The Toxic War on Masculinity, and Total Truth. Heralded as “America’s preeminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual” (The Economist), Pearcey is a professor of apologetics and scholar-in-residence at Houston Christian University.

What People are Saying About This

Kelly Monroe Kullberg

“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

J. P. Moreland

“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

John Erickson

“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

Ravi Zacharias

"Pearcey invites readers to 'TEST EVERYTHING' ... She illustrates how competing systems of thought borrow from Christianity even while rejecting it.... An IMMENSELY PRACTICAL and INSIGHTFUL resource."

J. Warner Wallace

“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

David Naugle

“Wonderfully insightful … helps readers avoid becoming ‘intoxicated’ with idols and false ideas.”
            — David K. Naugle, Author, Worldview: The History of a Concept

Gregory Koukl

“Chock full of gems … Pearcey has the unique ability of getting to the heart of things.”
            — Gregory Koukl, President, Stand to Reason

Phil Robertson

“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

Doug TenNapel

“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

Paul Copan

"Deftly exposes the inconsistencies and the failures of a host of modern idols.”
            —Paul Copan, Professor of Philosophy, Palm Beach Atlantic University

Sean McDowell

“Fantastic! … Sharp critique of secular culture and a helpful guide for correcting it.”
            — Sean McDowell, Author, Speaker

Lee Strobel

“Nancy Pearcey at her best—totally profound, persuasive, and yet practical.  Read it with your highlighter handy!”
            — Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling Author

Editorial Reviews

"As Pearcey (author of the 2005 classic Total Truth) so ably points out, both explicitly and through poignant real-life stories, “finding truth” is not a dry intellectual exercise ... She leads the reader step-by-step through these principles in an accessible way, providing concrete examples ... This book would make a fantastic graduation gift for high school seniors, especially those on their way to college ... I hope that Christians might pass on copies of Finding Truth to non-Christians, who might find Pearcey’s analysis of secular worldviews convincing and her presentation of Christianity appealing."
Christianity Today

Christianity Today

"Finding Truth is a seminar between two covers, providing depth of information and guidance toward an informed faith through the Study Guide offered at the end. Its goal—helping the reader to communicate Christian convictions—leads the Christian to think, to study, and to interact with ideas. Sure to facilitate powerful discussion, the study questions at the end will develop critical thinking skills and flex spiritual muscles. Pearcey’s wonderfully readable style makes it a resource for anyone serious about discovering truth. Woven throughout are stories of people such as Dr. Michael Egnor (a leading brain surgeon), acclaimed hip-hop artist Lecrae Moore, and Pearcey’s own journey to faith, that make the book fascinating and real."

Defend Magazine - Marilyn Stewart

"Scholarly but fully accessible ... Pearcey surveys the various idols upon which the various schools of modernism and postmodernism have built their systems: reason, imagination, economics, matter ... Just as Paul warns that those who serve idols will exchange the glory of the immortal God for the images of animals, so Pearcey warns that worldviews that begin with a false staring point inevitably end up reducing man from a free individual made in God’s image to a determined and dehumanized unit in nature ... A full, carefully-nuanced exposé of the bankrupt, dead-end nature of materialism ... A splendid coup d’état."
—Hope's Reason: A Journal of Apologetics

Hope's Reason

"Pearcey promises that the principles she lays out will 'provide you with the tools to recognize what’s right and wrong with any worldview—and then to craft a biblically informed perspective that is both true and humane.'  She makes the promise and she delivers on it. Finding Truth is, all-in-all, a worthy successor to Total Truth."
—Challies.com

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"Pearcey promises that the principles she lays out will 'provide you with the tools to recognize what’s right and wrong with any worldview—and then to craft a biblically informed perspective that is both true and humane.'  She makes the promise and she delivers on it. Finding Truth is, all-in-all, a worthy successor to Total Truth."
—Challies.com

www.challies.com - Tim Challies

Chock full of gems … Pearcey has the unique ability of getting to the heart of things.”
            — Gregory Koukl, President, Stand to Reason

Gregory Koukl

Fantastic! … Sharp critique of secular culture and a helpful guide for correcting it.”
            — Sean McDowell, Author, Speaker

Sean McDowell

Wonderfully insightful … helps readers avoid becoming ‘intoxicated’ with idols and false ideas.”
            — David K. Naugle, Author, Worldview: The History of a Concept

David Naugle

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

Kelly Monroe Kullberg

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

John Erickson

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

Doug TenNapel

"Deftly exposes the inconsistencies and the failures of a host of modern idols.”
            —Paul Copan, Professor of Philosophy, Palm Beach Atlantic University

Paul Copan

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

J. P. Moreland

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

Phil Robertson

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

J. Warner Wallace

Nancy Pearcey at her best—totally profound, persuasive, and yet practical.  Read it with your highlighter handy!”
            — Lee Strobel, New York Times bestselling Author

Lee Strobel

"Pearcey invites readers to 'TEST EVERYTHING' ... She illustrates how competing systems of thought borrow from Christianity even while rejecting it.... An IMMENSELY PRACTICAL and INSIGHTFUL resource."

Ravi Zacharias