Schaeffer on the Christian Life, by William Edgar, Wheaton, Illinois: Crossway, 2013, 206 pages, paperback.
Carl Trueman, Francis Schaeffer, and the Two Gates of Christian Civic Engagement
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“Carl Trueman’s point has merit. It is essential for Christians to not simply become an arm of those vying for political power. On the other hand, Christian congregations must remember that they stand in a long line of saints who took civic duty seriously.” - Providence
Respond to Conflict like Francis Schaeffer
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“As Christians, how can we learn to disagree well, especially with other Christians? In 1970, Francis Schaeffer, one of the most astute apologists of the 20th century, published The Mark of the Christian.” - TGC
“Forty years after Francis Schaeffer’s passing, his contributions to the church and the world are still visible.”
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“As I reflect on that legacy, two themes arise: the spiritual integrity of Francis’s faith and the distinct shape of what God led him and Edith to do through L’Abri.” - TGC
The Truth Is Timeless. And God Is Still There
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“For all I might achieve, heal, and strengthen, perfection, full integration, and wholeness will always be unattainable. The world tells me otherwise — every day, in fact. But if I don’t accept this truth, I will spend a lifetime shoving reality aside.” - Common Good
He is (still) there, and He is not silent: Francis Schaeffer’s classic defense of Christian truth turns 50
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“Schaeffer’s book came out in 1972, 50 years ago. I did not want the year to pass without expressing my gratitude to Francis Schaeffer for this influence on my life.” - Al Mohler
The God Who Is There
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“Given the cultural challenges facing the church in our day – not only from the outside, but increasingly from within – it is appropriate that we remember some of the keynote truths at the heart of Schaeffer’s work.” - Ref21
He’s Still There and Still Not Silent—Revisiting Francis Schaeffer’s Classic
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“Published in 1972 during the ‘counterculture’—when everything seemed up for grabs in religion, philosophy, politics, and society—Schaeffer ‘understood the times’ and knew what Christians needed to do” - Douglas Groothius
Book Review - Shaeffer on the Christian Life
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This book is a part of Crossway’s Countercultural Spirituality series. Of all the volumes in the series perhaps the most natural choice for inclusion is Francis Schaeffer. Schaeffer it was whose lectures and writings urged upon a docile church the responsibility of engaging the culture. His L’Abri mission epitomized a way of doing it directly. Schaeffer’s life was all about living out the truth of Christianity intelligently before the watching world. He relentlessly called upon Christians to explore and exhibit God’s “reality”: to imbibe, not just intellectually but experientially the Living Truth in a fallen culture.
