Making a Difference: Impacting Culture and Society as a Christian

Making a Difference

Author: R.C. Sproul

The great challenge for the Christian in a post-Christian context is how to impact this fallen world with our faith. In Making a Difference, beloved theologian R. C. Sproul shows readers how to confront today's moral and social issues with an effective biblical response. Dr. Sproul first examines the major philosophies that affect the way Americans think and act--secularism, existentialism, humanism, and pragmatism--and then presents ideas on how to apply a biblical perspective to spheres of public life that need the Christian's influence today: economics, science, art and literature, and government.

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PART I: World Views

1. The Importance of Cultural Awareness
2. Secularism: Ignoring the Eternal
3. Pessimistic Existentialism
4. Sentimental Humanism
5. Pragmatism: “Made in USA”
6. Positivism: “Seeing Is Believing”
7. Pluralism and Relativism: “It’s All Relative”
8. Hedonism: “Grabbing for All the Gusto!”

PART II: The Christian’s Role in Society

9. The Christian and World Economics: A Look at the Law and the Profits
10. The Christian and Science: How to Fuse Faith and the Atom
11. The Christian and Art: Painting by the Numbers
12. The Christian and Literature: Faith and Fiction
13. The Christian and Government: What to Do When Uncle Sam Wants You