Apologetics 315 Podcast

128 - The Toxic War Against Masculinity with Nancy Pearcey

Apologetics 315 Podcast

Show Notes

In this episode, Brian Auten and Chad Gross speak with Professor Nancy Pearcey about her book The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes - https://a315.co/468rzNF

0:24 - Intro banter on hobbit food 2:15 - Intro to Nancy Pearcey and her book The Toxic War Against Masculinity 6:16 - Welcome to Nancy 6:46 - Nancy’s background and why she wrote the book 9:14 - Francis Schaeffer’s influence on Nancy Pearcey 15:41 - Why a toxic war against masculinity? 18:35 - The statistics among Christians and non-Christians 22:18 - The difference between nominal Christian men and committed Christian men 25:36 - What’s changed to bring about a resistance against masculinity? 30:07 - Why men are looked down on these days 33:00 - Two competing scripts for masculinity 37:03 - How secularism has changed the approach towards men 40:14 - How has the church responded? 47:50 - Abuse and how the church can respond

Further resources… Nancy Pearcey online: www.nancypearcey.com

Nancy Pearcey's latest book is The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes

Her earlier books include

Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and Sexuality,

The Soul of Science

Saving Leonardo

Finding Truth

How Now Shall We Live

Total Truth

Her books have been translated into 19 languages. She is professor and scholar in residence at Houston Christian University. A former agnostic, Pearcey has spoken at universities such as Princeton, Stanford, USC, and Dartmouth. She has been quoted in *he New Yorker and Newsweek, highlighted as one of the five top women apologists by Christianity Today, and hailed in The Economist as "America's pre-eminent evangelical Protestant female intellectual."

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