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Schaeffer Audio Online

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, […]

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Schaeffer and Irrationality’s Spread of Despair

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 […]

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Archive Nota Bene Philosophy Steven Wedgeworth

Francis Schaeffer’s Real Reality

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 […]