Compassionate Engagement, Part 6: Schaeffer’s Enduring Influence
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Francis Schaeffer’s enduring influence upon evangelicals and evangelicalism cannot be overlooked. In great measure, Francis Schaeffer taught evangelicals the value of intellectual engagement. While in Europe, Schaeffer began to see the fault of fundamentalism lying primarily in its strident separatism. As he would interact with [...]
Compassionate Engagement, Part 5: Schaeffer’s Political Activism
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Up to this point in his life, Schaeffer had remained aloof to political activity. He would become convinced, however, that political involvement was the only logical step given his theory that the decline of Western thought and morality was due to departure from biblical [...]
Compassionate Engagement, Part 4: A Few of Schaeffer’s Most Significant Works
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 The subject matter of Schaeffer’s speaking tours would eventually become the content of three important books, The God who is There, Escape from Reason, He is There and He is Not Silent, published in 1968, 1969, and 1972 respectively. In these books Schaeffer sought to [...]
Compassionate Engagement, Part 3: Life at L’Abri
Part 1 Part 2 Prior to the establishment of the L’Abri fellowship, Schaeffer trudged through a season of spiritual turmoil and profound questioning. He had grown disillusioned with the spiritual reality of his own life and of those within the separatist movement and in other orthodox churches with which he was familiar (Louis [...]
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