How Now Shall We Live?
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4.8 • 15 Ratings
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- $17.99
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Publisher Description
2000 Gold Medallion Award winner!
Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions—Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?—but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's bankrupt worldviews and to restore and redeem every aspect of contemporary culture: family, education, ethics, work, law, politics, science, art, music. This book will change every Christian who reads it. It will change the church in the new millennium.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
International prison ministry leader Colson, most famous for his role in the Watergate scandal and his subsequent conversion to Christianity, has co-written with Pearcey what he believes to be the most important book of his career. Picking up where the late American theologian Francis Schaeffer's book and film series How Then Shall We Live? left off, Colson attempts to explain why American culture has become "post-Christian" and what must be done to "rebuild it with a biblical worldview." He believes that Christian salvation is not just personal but "cosmological," redeeming all of creation. Colson's work is a mixed bag. When he outlines his theology, shares personal stories or explains the various Supreme Court cases that touch upon religion's role in American life, he is thoughtful and articulate, yet the work suffers from a narrow perspective and an overdependence on the opinions of a few others, especially Schaeffer. As the author of a book that ostensibly engages recent developments in science, art and philosophy from a Christian point of view, Colson too easily dismisses opposing views without expressing a full understanding of them (Stephen Hawking's time theories amount to "little more than fantasy," for example). Such an approach to humanist ideas makes this a sermon strictly for the evangelical choir, although Colson intends the book to inspire debate in the wider culture and Tyndale is launching a $250,000 marketing campaign to sell it.
Customer Reviews
Biblically Centered
This is the second Chuck Colson book I have read and one of two required readings for a Worldviews course I took at Colorado Christian University. Mr. Colson came to see the Light just before serving seven months in Alabama's Maxwell Prison for obstruction of justice on Watergate-related charges. He now heads up Prison Fellowship Ministries, the largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, crime victims, and their families. How Now Shall We Live? challenges believers to understand Biblical faith as an entire worldview, a perspective on all of life. If you follow the True Light, you need to hear this message on eternally impacting all aspects of our culture - art, education, entertainment, families, literature, music, politics, science, etc. We must be able to defend what we believe and inspire others to give witness to the Truth alongside us. How Now Shall We Live? received one of Christianity Today's Awards of Merit in 2000.
MUST READ for all Christians
Absolutely stupendous read for all those (especially parents) who are interested in learning how science has morphed into philosophy and is in the process of indoctrinating people in every walk of life and turning them against God. More importantly this book is a treatise on why faith is NOT OPPOSED to reason, and anyone who wishes to intelligently defend their faith should read it. Colson is brilliant and I consider this book to be in the class of Mere Christianity. BRILLIANT. Rip Mr Colson.
Fantastic book!
This is one of the best books I have ever read. I encourage everyone to read it.