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Francis A Schaeffer (1912-1984) is most famous for his writing and his establishment of the l'Abri community. Described as 'the last modern theologian' — but opposed to theological Modernism —, Schaeffer was deeply committed to an Orthodox Protestant faith which answered the questions of the age.
He authored 22 books, which cover a vast spread of spiritual issues.
They can be roughly split into 5 sections, as per the edition of his Complete Works:
A Christian View Of Philosophy And Culture
The first three books in this block are known as Schaeffer's trilogy, laying down the philosophical and theological foundation for all his work.
Deals with the existence and relevance of God, and how modern man came to first distance himself from, and ultimately disbelieve, God as revealed by the Bible.
How the rejection of the Biblical God causes man to loose contact with reality and reason.
- He Is There and He Is Not Silent
How God speaks to man through the Bible on the three philosophically fundamental areas of Metaphysics, Ethics and Epistemology.
- Back to Freedom and Dignity
An answer to B.F. Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity, arguing that freedom and dignity of man are God-given and therefore can't be left aside without dire consequences.
A Christian View Of The Bible As Truth
- Genesis in Space and Time
Argues that an almost literalist view of Genesis as historically true is fundamental to the Christian faith.
- No Final Conflict
- Joshua and the Flow of Biblical History
- Basic Bible Studies
Biblical studies on the fundamentals of the faith.
A Christian View Of Spirituality
Argues that Christians should never despair of having a significant life of realisations, small as they seem to be.
Provides the spiritual foundation for Schaeffer's work, as a complement to the theological and philosophical approach of most other books. Fundamental to gain a balanced view of the whole of Schaeffer's life and ministry.
- The New Super-Spirituality
Traces the intellectual decadence of students and counter-culture from the late sixties to the early seventies back to the conformism of their fathers, only with less moral absolutes, and predicts the contamination of the church. Predicts what was to become Postmodernism.
- Two Contents, Two Realities
A Christian View Of The Church
- The Church at the End of the Twentieth Century
- The Church Before the Watching World
- The Mark of the Christian
Analyses the necessary balance between orthodoxy of doctrine and that of communion — love.
- Death in the City
- The Great Evangelical Disaster
A Christian View Of The West
- Pollution and the Death of Man
- How Should We Then Live?
- Whatever Happened to the Human Race?
- A Christian Manifesto
The proper Christian principles for secular politics.
Writings
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