On July 26, 1935, Schaeffer married Edith Seville, a daughter of missionaries who worked in China. On August 19, 1930, after reading the Bible cover to cover, Schaeffer attended an evangelist tent meeting where he accepted the altar call to give his life to Christ.ģ. The drunk doctor neglected to fill out a birth certificate, which Schaeffer did not discover until he was 35 years old.Ģ. On January 30, 1912, Francis August Schaeffer IV was born in Pennsylvania to Francis August Schaeffer III and Bessie Williamson. 10 Important Events in the Life of Francis Schaefferġ. Here is what you need to know about this original Christian thinker.
Two generations later, his work continues to be a landmark example of combining faith, wisdom and holistic living. He argued Christians needed to take creativity seriously, talking about Frederico Fellini when many Christian colleges wouldn’t let students see To Kill A Mockingbird. He analyzed existentialism and other popular philosophies, arguing that only Christianity had the necessary foundation for a consistent life that answered humanity’s deep longings. At first this seemed a bit strange after hearing Francis Schaeffer talk for five hours on the videos but then her voice blended into the background and I was able to listen past her and hear the text itself.For evangelical Christians in the 1960s-1970s, Francis Schaeffer’s teachings came like a thunderbolt. This, he says, is the very antithesis of Christianity. Schaeffer exhorts the faithful to abandon the idea that we should just want to be left alone and accumulate material wealth. The last section deals with the pervading malady of mankind today: the persuit of Personal Peace and Affluence. In this book you will learn what is really means to try to live according to the principles of Biblical Christianity in this age of declining morality. Despite personally living almost as a man out of time he has the pulse of our society on his fingertips. His dress and manner of speech is from another, simpler, time. If you have seen the ten part series you will know that Schaeffer is a bit if an anachronism. Francis Schaeffer, more than any other Christian author in the 20th century properly identifies the basic problem with man and how to fix it.
And even though the videos total five hours of time this book goes into the subject with more depth. This makes a great follow-up to the video series. I listened to this just after watching the ten part video series of the same name. Want To Be Left Alone? Better Read Schaeffer
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