Love Thy Body with Nancy Pearcey
Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations
The Christian Research Institute
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: what are the issues that Pearcey felt compelled to address in her book Love Thy Body (0:30); how does Christianity teach us to feel about our body? (3:30); recognizing Christian heritage (6:30); the dangerous implications of the transgender narrative (9:30); the bioethics of abortion and the scary implications for the identity of personhood (11:30); how did Pearcey transition from being an agnostic to a Christian evangelist? (16:30); the issue of origins being the main difference between Christianity and secularism (21:00); the cognitive dissonance of conflicting social movements such as transgender activists and feminists (28:00); modernism, postmodernism, and morals (33:00); the dire implications of abortion on social perceptions of personhood (38:00); the growing coercive power of the state through postmodern perspectives (41:00); why Western civilization should look to the early church for answers to problems we are facing today (46:00); recovering an appreciation for the radical uniqueness of the Christian worldview (53:00); how Christians can turn the Brave New World we are living in upside down (55:00); the dehumanizing effects and implications of the “loyalty oath of modernity” (1:02:00); how the hookup culture devalues sex, whereas the Christian worldview appreciates the beautiful value of sex (1:04:30); pornography and robot sex (1:08:30); pornography as a public health crisis (1:12:00); the need for Christians to understand worldviews to truly be able to love thy neighbor (1:15:30); the value of women in apologetics (1:20:00).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome to another edition of Hank Unplugged. |
| 0:25.7 | This is not the broadcast, as in the Bible Answer Man broadcast. |
| 0:30.0 | This is our podcast. |
| 0:32.5 | It is a means by which I can bring to you some of the most interesting, informative, and inspirational |
| 0:42.1 | people on the planet. And I'm delighted to do that very thing today. As we have a discussion, |
| 0:49.7 | a conversation with Nancy Piercy, who serves as a professor of apologetics and is a scholar in residence |
| 0:58.5 | at Houston Baptist University. She's also a fellow at the Discovery Institute Center for |
| 1:04.5 | Science and Culture, an author of award-winning books. Some of my favorites include Total Truth and the newest book, |
| 1:14.0 | Love Thy Body. Nancy, interesting enough, is formerly an agnostic, but now roundly regarded |
| 1:23.5 | as America's preeminent evangelical, Protestant, female intellectual. |
| 1:29.0 | And Nancy, it is an absolute delight to have this conversation with you today. |
| 1:34.4 | Well, thank you. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:36.6 | I thoroughly enjoyed total truth and enjoyed reading through Love Thy Body as well. |
| 1:42.6 | I think it's an incredible book, and we are going to use |
| 1:45.9 | it as an offer for the month so that people who support the ministry can get this book. |
| 1:50.5 | And as someone has well said, this is a book that not only needs to be read but mastered. |
| 1:58.4 | It is a book that allows us to see just how far our culture has devolved and |
| 2:05.8 | what we can do about it. I often say, Nancy, that paradigms allow us to see only what our |
| 2:11.7 | paradigms allow us to see. We don't think so much about our paradigms as we think with our paradigms. |
| 2:20.2 | And as Christians, we have unwittingly adopted bad paradigms. |
| 2:24.7 | It's not just the culture, therefore, that needs to be liberated. |
| 2:29.2 | It seems to me it's Christianity that needs to be liberated from its own cultural captivity. |
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