How Now Shall We Live? is a defining work on "worldview"how our ideas about the world shape the way we live. Co-authors Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey assert that Christians are not only called to personal faith but also to a biblical worldview, one that has the power to transform the world today.
"The churchs singular failure in recent decades has been the failure to see Christianity as a life system, or worldview, that governs every area of existence," says Colson, adding that this failure has been crippling to our children, ourselves and our efforts to have a "redemptive effect on the surrounding culture."
How Now Shall We Live? weaves engaging stories together with penetrating analyses to help Christians defend their faith. Colson and Pearcey pull out all the stops to show that every other worldview fails to meet the test of rational consistencyonly the Christian worldview fits the real world and can be lived out consistently in the home, workplace, classroom, courtroom and in public policy.
The authors define worldview as "what we believe is real and true, right and wrong, good and beautiful ... it is simply the sum total of our beliefs about the world." And every worldview can be analyzed by the way it answers three basic questions:
Understanding Christianity as a total life system is absolutely essential, say Colson and Pearcey, and will enable us to make sense of the world in which we live and equip us to defend and promote Christian truth.
How Now Shall We Live? will equip believers to understand the great issues debated in the world today, teach us how to counter false claims, to critique what we hear in the media and to evangelize our neighbors over the back fence.