The Calvinist International
Jake Meador has a great little essay on the need to avoid creating retreats by creating homes, and he points to Francis Schaeffer as a model. Give it a read. On this note, I would also add that “intentional community” had better include an intention to be morally upright, kind to others, and faithful to God […]
One of the men the regular contributors to this forum hold in high regard is Dr Francis Schaeffer. Much misunderstood by both followers and critics, and misjudged too often for his mistakes of detail, he was a prophet whose work is in many respects yet to be fully understood and rightly received. We are pleased […]
As our readers know, our task from the beginning has been a return to, and a critical retrieval of, the classic Protestant tradition. As we say, it arose out of recent ferment in the Reformed world; our goal was to make the “Reformed catholicity” movement both really Reformed and really catholic. Our position from the […]
We are very excited to see that the L’Abri ideas library has archived a huge collection of Dr. Schaeffer’s lectures on Mp3. While we do occasionally disagree with Dr. Schaeffer’s cultural critiques, we hold his theology and basic philosophy in the highest regard, especially his defense of “real reality” and its knowability by all men, […]
Concerning the shift from objective rationality to modern irrationality, Francis Schaeffer writes: The shift spread gradually, and in three different ways. People did not suddenly wake up one morning and find that it had permeated everywhere at once. First of all it spread geographically. The ideas began in German y and spread outward. They affected […]
Francis Schaeffer was sometimes known as a “presuppositionalist,” but the more strict presuppositionalists always denied that he fit the bill. While not sharing the same value estimation of this verdict, and depending on how one defines the terms, I have to say that I agree with them. As important as Schaeffer viewed worldviews and religious […]
The editors of TCI have been working on a project of Protestant and Reformed Resourcement for some time. We have named this project, “How Then Have We Lived?,” in tribute to the late Francis Schaeffer. He energized the Evangelical world to move forward confidently with a Christian philosophy and engagement with the world of arts […]