Nancy Pearcey
Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952) is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview.[1]
Education
[edit]Pearcey earned a BA from Iowa State University, an MA in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.[2] She also did additional non-degree study in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada[3] and received an honorary doctorate from Cairn University in 2007.[4]
Career
[edit]Pearcey was the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar for several years at the World Journalism Institute.[5][6] In September 2007, Pearcey was named Scholar for Worldview Studies at the Center for University Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.[6][7] In 2011-12 Pearcey was on the faculty at Rivendell Sanctuary.[8] In 2012, she became Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University.[9] Pearcey is a columnist for the conservative magazine Human Events.[10]
Intelligent design
[edit]Pearcey is a fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the center of the intelligent design movement, where she has had the primary responsibility for promoting the movement's viewpoint through op-eds, for journals and magazine's, especially World magazine.[11] Pearcey was a contributor to the controversial pro-intelligent design high school textbook Of Pandas and People, which featured prominently in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial.[12]
Publications
[edit]- Pearcey, Nancy Randolph; Colson, Charles (1993), A Dance With Deception: Revealing the Truth Behind the Headlines, Dallas: Word Pub., ISBN 0-8499-3521-0.
- ———; Colson, Charles (1994), A Dangerous Grace: Daily Readings.
- ———; Thaxton, Charles B (1994), The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy, Crossway, ISBN 0-89107-766-9.
- ———; Fickett, Harold; Colson, Charles (1999), How Now Shall We Live?, Tyndale House Publishers, ISBN 0-8423-1808-9.
- ——— (2005). Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. Wheaton: Crossway Books. ISBN 1-4335-0220-8. ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award 'Christianity and Society' category winner.[13]
- ——— (2010), Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning, B&H Books, ISBN 978-1-4336-6927-9.
- ——— (2015), Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, David C Cook, ISBN 978-0-7814-1308-4.
- ______ (2018) Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality, Baker Books, ISBN 9780801075728.
- ——— (2023). The toxic war on masculinity: how Christianity reconciles the sexes. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8010-7573-5.
References
[edit]- ^ Pearcey, Nancy (12 August 2011). "Dangerous Influences: The New Yorker, Michele Bachmann, and Me". Human Events. Archived from the original on 16 May 2012. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
- ^ Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. Crossway Publishers. 31 March 2008. ISBN 978-1-4335-0220-0. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Pearcey, Nancy. "Nancy Pearcey". Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
- ^ "Nancy Pearcey, MA". Houston Baptist University. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ^ "Nancy Pearcey, World Journalism Institute". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
- ^ a b Anderson, Matthew Lee (1 September 2010). "Saving Leonardo: An Interview with Nancy Pearcey". Evangelical Outpost. Archived from the original on 31 July 2015. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
- ^ Author Dr. Nancy Pearcey Named Worldview Scholar at Philadelphia Biblical University's Center for University Studies ChristianNewsWire
- ^ "Worldview Thinkers Nancy Pearcey and J. Richard Pearcey to Join Faculty at Rivendell Sanctuary, Rivendell News, January 13, 2011". Archived from the original on November 11, 2010. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
- ^ Pearceys Resign From Rivendell Sanctuary, Pro-Existence, May 11, 2012
- ^ "Nancy Pearcey, Columnist Human Events". Archived from the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
- ^ Forrest, Barbara (2007). Creationism's Trojan Horse. City: Oxford University Press, USA. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-19-531973-6.
- ^ Intelligent Decision: What the judge said about intelligent design in schools Archived 2012-10-10 at the Wayback Machine, Susan Kruglinski, Discover Magazine, 22 December 2005
- ^ "Winners", Christian Book Awards, Christian book expo, 2005.
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- 1952 births
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- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 20th-century evangelicals
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century evangelicals
- American Christian Young Earth creationists
- American Evangelical writers
- American religious writers
- American women non-fiction writers
- Biola University
- Cairn University
- Converts to Christianity from atheism or agnosticism
- Converts to evangelical Christianity
- Discovery Institute fellows and advisors
- Intelligent design advocates
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- American philosophers of religion
- Protestant philosophers