Schaeffer, I think, has very important and wise things to say. I think his ideas of pre-apologetics is vital, and I love his insistence on the importance of art, and dealing honestly with art as such. Some of his thought, however, I find a little too black-and-white. For instance, calling the postmodern dialectic style of thought the "line of despair" is kind of poisoning the well, yes? I could be too much a postmodern to appreciate enough what Schaeffer has to say, but his thoughts on the adequacy of antithetical propositions seem kind of weak to me. For instance, he argues that man is morally (I do wrong), not metaphysically (I can't do right), guilty before God. But doesn't Jesus say "forgive them, they know not what they do" (that is, they are morally wrong, but at least in part because of their metaphysical state)? Either/or can often work!