Nancy Pearcey

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Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952) is an American evangelical author known for her writings on Intelligent design and Christian worldview theory.

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Education

Pearcey earned a BA from Iowa State University, an MA in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. [1] She also completed additional non-degree study in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada [2] and received an honorary doctorate from Cairn University in 2007. [3]

Career

In 1991, Pearcey and Charles Colson founded BreakPoint Radio, a radio show dedicated to bringing Christian apologetics to a popular audience. Pearcey wrote scripts for the show until November 1999. [4] Starting in 1996, Pearcey co-authored a number of Christianity Today columns with Colson, who provided outlines that Pearcey would turn into drafts. [5] [6] Pearcey and Colson published their book How Now Shall We Live? in 1999. Despite maintaining her contract for the book was “for co-authorship, not for ghostwriting” [4] Pearcey was only included in ads and cover designs for the book after extensive negotiations with Tyndale House Publishers. [6]

In the early 2000s, Pearcey was the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar for several years at the World Journalism Institute. [7]

In September 2007, Pearcey was named Scholar for Worldview Studies at the Center for University Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, Langhorne, Pennsylvania.[5][6]

In 2011-12 Pearcey was on the faculty at Rivendell Sanctuary. [8] In 2012, she became Scholar in Residence at Houston Christian University. [9] Pearcey is a columnist for the conservative magazine Human Events . [10]

Views

Intelligent design

Pearcey is a fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. [11] She has extensively promoted the intelligent design movement in her writings. Pearcey authored several chapters of the controversial pro-intelligent design textbook Of Pandas and People, which featured prominently in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial. [3]

Christian Worldview

Pearcey is a vocal advocate of the Christian Worldview, which emphasizes the construction of distinctly Christian intellectual frameworks rooted in Biblical inerrancy. Each worldview is defined by its answer to three questions, including natural origins, the source of suffering/the fall, and how humans will be redeemed. [1] These views are mutually exclusive:

"The culture war is not just about abortion, homosexual rights, or the decline of public education. These are only the skirmishes. The real war is a cosmic struggle between worldviews—between the Christian worldview and the various secular and spiritual worldviews arrayed against it. This is what we must understand if we are going to be effective both in evangelizing our world today and in transforming it to reflect the wisdom of the Creator.” [12]

Gender and Sexuality

Pearcey is an adherent to Complementarianism and distinct gender roles for men and women. She believes the Industrial Revolution disrupted the connection between men and their homes — for example, she argues Women's suffrage "represented a tragic erosion of women’s trust in men to take responsibility for the common good—especially women’s good," [13] stating this trend led to societal atomization and the decline of traditional masculinity. To combat this trend, she argues for renewed interest in the home and conscious de-secularization of Christian masculinity that emphasizes spiritual leadership.

Pearcey is opposed to the Sex–gender distinction, arguing Transgender sexuality "sets up an opposition between the body and the self, estranging people from their basic biological identities as male and female." [7]

Criticism

The BioLogos Foundation has criticized Pearcey for conflating "the scientific theory of biological evolution and the philosophy of materialistic evolutionism" in her work on intelligent design. [14]

Publications

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  3. 1 2 "Nancy Pearcey, MA". Houston Baptist University. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Ghostwriting trend haunts Christian publishing world". Washington Times. July 7, 2000. Archived from the original on 11 Jan 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2024.
  5. ↑ Admin, C. M. S. (2002-03-01). "Who Writes Charles Colson's Columns?". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  6. 1 2 Rutten, Tim (2002-03-29). "Digging for the Truth in Colson's Column". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  7. 1 2 Admin, C. M. S. (2018-02-20). "How the Transgender Narrative Perpetuates Stereotypes". Christianity Today. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ Pearceys Resign From Rivendell Sanctuary, Pro-Existence, May 11, 2012
  10. ↑ "Nancy Pearcey, Columnist Human Events". Archived from the original on 2011-01-29. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
  11. ↑ "Nancy Pearcey". Discovery Institute. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
  12. 1 2 Colson, Charles W.; Pearcey, Nancy (1999). How now shall we live?. Wheaton, Ill: Tyndale House Publishers. ISBN   978-0-8423-1808-2.
  13. ↑ Pearcey, Nancy (2023). The toxic war on masculinity: how Christianity reconciles the sexes. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-8010-7573-5.
  14. ↑ "The Bible, Rocks, and Time: Christians and an Old Earth". BioLogos. Retrieved 2024-08-28.
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