The conclusions he drew were these: if man is determined then what is is right. Thus on the basis of the Scriptures, while we do not have exhaustive knowledge, we have true and unified knowledge. It is an important principle to remember, in the contemporary interest in communication and in language study, that the biblical presentation is that, though we do not have exhaustive truth, we have from the Bible what I term 'true truth.' In this way we know true truth about God, true truth about man and something truly about nature. When nature is made autonomous, it is destructive. Remember as you read these quotes that Schaeffer wrote this in 1968. Many of these are longer because it helps to have context. Here are some of my favorite quotes from Escape from Reason. He saw fifty years ago, what many Christians cannot even see today when our country and to a large degree the church has abandoned rationality (not rationalism) for mysticism and self-determination. A friend of mine recently read Escape from Reason and then my oldest son just read How Should We Then Live? After hearing some of the conversation about Schaeffer, I decided to pick him up again. It is has been a long time since I read anything by him. Schaeffer's thought guided me through much of my college and post college years. At first this seemed a bit strange after hearing Francis Schaeffer talk for five hours on the videos but then her voice blended into the background and I was able to listen past her and hear the text itself.My father introduced me to Francis Schaeffer, a gift for which I am very grateful. This, he says, is the very antithesis of Christianity. Schaeffer exhorts the faithful to abandon the idea that we should just want to be left alone and accumulate material wealth. The last section deals with the pervading malady of mankind today: the persuit of Personal Peace and Affluence. In this book you will learn what is really means to try to live according to the principles of Biblical Christianity in this age of declining morality. Despite personally living almost as a man out of time he has the pulse of our society on his fingertips. His dress and manner of speech is from another, simpler, time. If you have seen the ten part series you will know that Schaeffer is a bit if an anachronism. Francis Schaeffer, more than any other Christian author in the 20th century properly identifies the basic problem with man and how to fix it. And even though the videos total five hours of time this book goes into the subject with more depth. This makes a great follow-up to the video series.

I listened to this just after watching the ten part video series of the same name. Want To Be Left Alone? Better Read Schaeffer

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