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  • Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality
  • Written by: Nancy R. Pearcey
  • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
  • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (72 ratings)

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Love Thy Body

Written by: Nancy R. Pearcey
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
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Are transgender people discovering their authentic self? Is the hookup culture really liberating? Does abortion lead to equality for women? Does homosexuality contradict our biological sex?

In Love Thy Body, best-selling and award-winning author Nancy Pearcey takes on the hard questions about life and sexuality. She offers a respectful but riveting exposé of the secular worldview that lies behind trendy slogans and political talking points. A former agnostic, Pearcey is a sensitive guide to the secular ideas that shape current debates. She empowers listeners to intelligently and compassionately engage today's most controversial moral and social challenges.

In a surprise shattering of stereotypes, Pearcey demonstrates that while secularism promises much, in reality it delivers little. She turns the tables on stereotypes that portray Christianity as harsh and bigoted, and invites a fresh look at its holistic, life-affirming principles: It is a worldview that matches the real world and fits with human experience.

All along, Pearcey keeps listeners entranced with gripping stories of real people wrestling with hard questions in their own lives - sharing their pain, their struggles, and their triumphs.

©2018 Nancy R. Pearcey (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Great content, terrible formatting

The content is wonderful, but the 180 nameless "chapters" are terrible! There's no way to find specific sections. 0 out of 5 for that. 5 out of 5 for everything else. This is also another book that should have been read by the author. I love the way Nancy speaks.

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Excellent Information

I appreciated the knowledge in this book. It was easy to listen to and take in. I feel like this is Biblically aligned and recommend for others looking for such information.

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Very good read!

Really appreciated Nancy’s thoroughness and her wisdom in connecting worldviews and their consequences!
The book is definitely a dry read, but very worth it if you can take it a bit at a time!

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A landmark book

A well-articulated book on sexuality and gender identity, from a well-reasoned Christian perspective, backed by research and study, spoken with grace and understanding.

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Brilliant!

This book is timely, well-written, and well-argued. Pearcy presents complex ideas with clarity and ample explanation. She deftly weaves research, logic, compassion, and biblical truths together as she presents a cohesive Christian response to the controversial issues of our day. A "must read" masterpiece!

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Nonreligious take on sexual revolution

I love how the author brings these topics to the spotlight without making them utterly religious.
Of course conservatives go against the sexual revolution, making them the primary public for the book, but the fact that it can be read by nonreligious people and still make sense is great.
I've recommended it many times and it's always appreciated.

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pure religious propaganda

it was slightly interesting but all in all they just repeated the same thing over and over. they could have got their point across in a quarter of the time.
this book is homophobic pro life anti abortion anti choice propaganda

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Fantastic!

Absolutely an excellent book! Desperately needed for the Church and culture today. It is so biblically based and so relevant, not just for Christians.

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Good theology with poor conclusions...

I feel strange while writing this review. Ann Richardson's narration is excellent and engaging listening! I was able to speed the book up to at least 1.8x (often above 2x) and still understand clearly. My problems have to do with the *content* Richardson reads so ably.

I am a committed Christian who has the view of personhood as fundamentally relational advocated by Pearcey (which is, as she correctly notes, deeply rooted in the Bible and the best Christian tradition). I'm also a gay man who thinks Queer Theory has tremendous resources for contemporary Christianity (though of course neither movement is perfect!).

The first and most major problem with her view is her denial of contemporary evolutionary science, which she derides as "Darwinism." She fails to make the distinction between metaphysical and methodological naturalism, and thus (falsely) concludes that affirming evolution is destructive of the Christian worldview. Instead, she relies on the views of the Intelligent Design movement, including a disproven view of what they call "irreducible complexity." One cannot deny reality--the fact of evolution--and expect to do good theology by Pearcey's own assumptions. And so, with most issues here, she does not.

Because Pearcey believes that all of the issues she discusses derive from a "secular" two-storey worldview (a fundamental split between the body and the spirit originating in the Enlightenment), she listens polemically to "secular" sources, rarely engaging theologians who counter her assertion that a modern form of Gnosticism funds social change. (Among conservative Christians, the charge of Gnosticism--the view that the body is unreal at best and evil at worst--functions as a bogeyman they must avoid at all costs; it is a conversation stopper.) She does not seem to acknowledge that re-working the story we tell ourselves about how the body and mind are related does necessarily entail rejection of the body (a fear she flags as Gnosticism).

As a Queer theologian, I found myself shouting "YES!" to many of Pearcey's theological assumptions, but "NO!" to what seem deeply ungracious readings of sources which disagree with her. She also seems to think that the "nuclear" family is the healthy basis of all institutions, which I do not grant for a moment--it's not even in the Bible! She does not seem to consider that there are Christian ways to correct some of the poor language and concepts of secular sources without completely dismissing the testimonies and larger insights into worldview that contemporary conversations about abortion, euthanasia, gay marriage, and transgender experience offer about the Gospel. And for someone who explicitly says she wants to resist framing things as a "culture war," she was trained by Christians who fuel it to this day--many of her American Christian sources see themselves as fighting one. (Her anti-statist rhetoric is uniquely American; I wonder what she would say about the cultural shitshorm provoked by Evangelical support of Trump?)

Though this book is a clear statement of a particular (and serious) Evangelical view, Pearcey does not seriously assess the harms which may (and do!) result if the views she advocates are implemented in Western societies and especially the US). I do not recommend relying on this book if you want a fair exegesis (especially) of LGBT sources and theologians. It is absolutely important to love thy body--and yet Pearcey does not seem able to conceive of other ways so to do than her own. This is what makes her book such a disappointment to me.

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Wow! What a book. Nails the worldview of today and gives you a Christian one. I will be coming back to this book often. God bless

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