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He Is There and He Is Not Silent
Tyndale celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of this twentieth-century spiritual classic with a special commemorative edition featuring new foreword by Chuck Colson and introduction by Dr. Jerram Barrs, director of the Schaeffer Institute. "He Is There and He Is Not Silent" discusses fundamental questions about God, such as who he is and why he matters.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
July 15th 1972
by Tyndale House Publishers
(first published January 28th 1972)
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Another in a series of religious books that I was recommended, I chose to read this next because the main body of the book is less than 100 pages! I thought, "Great! I can read this in just a couple days!" However, I greatly underestimated how intellectual this author is. With practically every other page containing one or more words that I would have to look up, I think this book has stretched my vocabulary more than anything else I have read since college! Here is a quick sample of some of the...more
I know of few books as short and impactful as this small, unassuming read.
If you are an atheist, agnostic, Catholic, Protestant, philosopher, or every day person who just wants to grow as a thinker...this book grapples with some incredibly complex notions in some of the most accessible and easily understandable language I've ever come across.
Basically, the book starts with the Higher Order Questions and Schaeffer's own observations about peoples' assumptions (he calls them presuppositions) and...more
If you are an atheist, agnostic, Catholic, Protestant, philosopher, or every day person who just wants to grow as a thinker...this book grapples with some incredibly complex notions in some of the most accessible and easily understandable language I've ever come across.
Basically, the book starts with the Higher Order Questions and Schaeffer's own observations about peoples' assumptions (he calls them presuppositions) and...more
Aug 14, 2011
Ashley
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People who want external reasons to believe in Christianity apart from the Bible
This is a very difficult book to get through if you don't have someone explaining it along the way. For me, my Bible study group chose to do this book, and we read a chapter at a time (the book is only 4 chapters long), and talked about it. Actually, it was just the leader of the Bible study explaining what Schaeffer was trying to say, or explaining the background on which Schaeffer based his arguments.
Francis Schaeffer was a Christian philosopher in the 1960s and 1970s who lived in Switzerland....more
Francis Schaeffer was a Christian philosopher in the 1960s and 1970s who lived in Switzerland....more
Interesting. The books, The God Who Is There, and Escape from Reason would have been helpful to read, as they apparently make up a threesome with this work.
I appreciate the way Schaeffer writes with more depth than the average evangelical.
Thought provoking quote:
I appreciate the way Schaeffer writes with more depth than the average evangelical.
Thought provoking quote:
"...evangelicals have made a horrible mistake by often equating the fact that man is lost and under God's judgment with the idea that man is nothing--a zero. This is not what the Bible says. There is something great about man, and we ha...more
Schaeffer starts with a lot of assumptions that you are required to accept before moving on with his arguments. Generally the arguments follow logically, but often I found myself asking for more. I think, in the end, he presents a possible solution to many of the problems he brings up.
I found him incredibly grating with his insistence of his philosophy being the "necessary" solution. While I would like to explore these ideas further, I think I will have to search for other authors who are less p...more
I found him incredibly grating with his insistence of his philosophy being the "necessary" solution. While I would like to explore these ideas further, I think I will have to search for other authors who are less p...more
This was the first book I ever read by Schaeffer, back in the late 80s. It altered forever how I thought about life, God and Christianity. I came from a Christian tradition where thinking was not required. You were a Christian because you had "faith," no matter if that faith was a contentless faith. Schaeffer taught me that to become a thinking Christian was a good and necessary thing!
This is a much more philosophic book than "Escape From Reason," which is saying quite a lot, as Schaeffer is a very philosophic writer. This is a good one about the importance of epistemology. Start with his others and come to this one later and you'll probably get more out if it.
For those of you who haven't heard of Francis Schaeffer, he is one of the most prophetic theologians of the twentieth century. I highly suggest you expose yourself if you are into how secular history, the arts and christian apologetics collide.
I have not read enough Francis Schaeffer and trying to catch up. I used this book to help me prepare a talk on Evidences for the Existence of God. He Is There and He Is Not Silent was exceptionally helpful in developing the epistemological argument.
This is not a book for everyone, however, everyone should understand what is being said. If you are interested in how our culture got where it is, and are wondering what role God plays in it, this book would be good to struggle through.
Great discussion of the Christian worldview and how it makes sense of the knowledge and meaning. I can see why it is so highly regarded. You've got to be interested in reading philosophy to get into it though.
A superb book. Francis Schaeffer demonstrates how Christianity is the only world-view which can account for the three primary questions of philosophy - epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics.
If you want to see a classic example of the logical fallacy named "begging the question", this book will serve as an excellent illustration
Good follow up to the God who is there, I need to read this again, I think I have read this through 2 times.
Great end to Schaeffer's "trilogy" after Escape From Reason and The God Who Is There.
Great book on metaphysics, epistemology and ethics.
Sep 22, 2011
Bruce Lindsay
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So boring I cried
Really great.
Schaeffer gives a defense of believing in an infinite-personal God who speaks and works in history. He does this using logic and not going to the Bible for evidence. Schaeffer is incredibly rational and incredibly clear so that, though I had to read slow, I can understand the points he was making (though I'd have to read it again to get them down again, which is what I will do..).
This book put into clear, concise terms so many nebulous thoughts and opinions I had been trying to express for years. The book is well organized in how it addresses the oppositional thought processes before delving into the truth. It makes you think and questions your own view points before offering a solution to the "problem."
Read for the second time. Really enjoy Schaeffer. His books are very enlightening. In this book we learn more about why the Christian world view answers to big questions in philosophy and in this case "how we know" and how we come to know or the study of epistemology. Very good.
A philosophical treatise on the basic questions of life. Not and easy read but highly recommended if you like philosophy and would like a logical proof for christian belief. Schaeffer explores all the problems with modern philosophy and offers the only logical conclusions.
This book looks at the necessity of God for metaphysics to make sense, and makes the point that the biblical understanding of the Trinity is necessary as a basis for the meaning of human personality.
The title says it all and that is a much needed message to all.
Awesome. Not just awesome in fact, awesome-awesome.
One of his better works. Recommended.
Excellent!
May 18, 2013
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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 th...more
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“The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.”
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“I live in a thought world which is filled with creativity; inside my head there is creative imagination. Why? Because God, who is the Creator, has made me in His own image, I can go out in imagination beyond the stars. This is true not only for the Christian, but for every man. Every man is made in the image of God; therefore, no man in his imagination is confined to his own body.”
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