Nancy Pearcey
Quick Facts
Biography
Nancy Randolph Pearcey (born 1952) is an American evangelical author on the Christian worldview.
Education
Pearcey earned a BA from Iowa State University, an MA in Biblical Studies from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri and a PhD from Philadelphia Biblical University. She also did additional non-degree study in philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada.
Career
Pearcey was the Francis A. Schaeffer Scholar for several years at the World Journalism Institute. In September 2007, Pearcey was named Scholar for Worldview Studies at the Center for University Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University, Langhorne, Pennsylvania. In 2011-12 Pearcey was on the faculty at Rivendell Sanctuary. In 2012, she became Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University. Pearcey is a columnist for the conservative magazine Human Events.
Intelligent design
Pearcey is a fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, the center of the intelligent design movement, where she has had the primary responsibility for promoting the intelligent design movement's viewpoint through op-eds, for journals and magazine's, especially Marvin Olasky's World magazine. Pearcey was a contributor to the controversial pro-intelligent design high school textbook Of Pandas and People, which featured prominently in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial.
Publications
- Pearcey, Nancy Randolph; Colson, Charles (1993), A Dance With Deception: Revealing the Truth Behind the Headlines, Dallas: Word Pub., ISBN 0-8499-3521-0.
- ———; Colson, Charles (1994), A Dangerous Grace: Daily Readings.
- ———; Thaxton, Charles B (1994), The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy, Crossway, ISBN 0-89107-766-9.
- ———; Fickett, Harold; Colson, Charles (1999), How Now Shall We Live?, ISBN 0-8423-1808-9.
- ——— (2005). Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from Its Cultural Captivity. Wheaton: Crossway Books. ISBN 1-4335-0220-8.ECPA Gold Medallion Book Award 'Christianity and Society' category winner.
- ——— (2010), Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning, B&H Books, ISBN 978-1-4336-6927-9.
- ——— (2015), Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, David C Cook, ISBN 978-0-7814-1308-4.
- ______ (2018)Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions About Life and Sexuality, Baker Books, ISBN 9780801075728.