The responsibility of the Christian church “is not only to hold to the basic, scriptural principles of the Christian faith, but to communicate these unchanging truths into the generation in which it is living” (Introduction). Today, in honour of his legacy, and as a means of getting you all interested in Schaffer we shall dedicate our weekly article to some marvellous quotes drawn from the aforementioned tome. The good Lord is sovereign over both spheres. He who forgives sins in the spiritual realm is also able to heal the paralytic in the physical world. Such a dualism, of course, is an out-and-out denial of the unified vision of reality offered to us by the biblical God. He continues to feel haunted by the same ruthless meaningless that stems from a sharp division between the empirical and the non-empirical the objective and the subjective the rational and the trans-rational. Post-modern man (post-1960s) is none the wiser than his modern counterpart. In spite of the book’s small size (less than 100 pages), its insights are as still as relevant as they were half-a-century ago. This year, however, is somewhat more special as it is the fiftieth anniversary of his acclaimed tome Escape from Reason in which our philosopher defends the thesis that the death of God inevitably leads to the death of modern man. Mid-May marks the anniversary of Francis Schaffer’s ascent into glory.
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