Francis A. Schaeffer

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born

January 30, 1912

died

May 15, 1984

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male

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Politics, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality

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'Francis Schaeffer was a Presbyterian minister with an ability to see how the questions of meaning, morals, and value being dealt with by philosophy, were the same questions that the Bible dealt with, only in different language. Once an agnostic, Schaeffer came to the conclusion that Biblical Christianity not only gave sufficient answers to the big questions, but that they were the only answers that were both self-consistent and livable. With this conviction he became a man of conversation.

Schaeffer taught that God is really there and He is not silent, that He has spoken to man in the Bible and as a result we can have "true truth" about God and man. Knowing the dignity of man created in God's image, he placed a high value on creativity as...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 6,373 ratings · 485 reviews · 46 distinct works

	How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture 4.12 avg rating — 1,859 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The God Who Is There by Francis A. Schaeffer, James W. Sire (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 1,087 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	True Spirituality 4.12 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 1971 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Escape from Reason: A Penetrating Analysis of Trends in Modern Thought by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.P. Moreland (Foreword by) 4.02 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Christian Manifesto 3.86 avg rating — 419 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions	My rating:
	He Is There and He Is Not Silent 4.20 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Mark of the Christian by Francis A. Schaeffer, James W. Sire 4.13 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Art & the Bible 4.06 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy: Three Essential Books in One Volume by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.I. Packer (Foreword), Lane T. Dennis (Preface) 4.45 avg rating — 179 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Genesis in Space and Time; The Flow of Biblical History 4.01 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1972 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“The Christian in the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, Art & the Bible

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“Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer

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“The Bible is clear here: I am to love my neighbor as myself, in the manner needed, in a practical way, in the midst of the fallen world, at my particular point of history. This is why I am not a pacifist. Pacifism in this poor world in which we live -- this lost world -- means that we desert the people who need our greatest help.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer

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