128 - The Toxic War Against Masculinity with Nancy Pearcey

Apologetics 315 Podcast

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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