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Learning to Cry for the Culture

Let's remember Francis Schaeffer's most crucial legacy--tears.

John Fischer | posted 3/19/2007 09:23AM

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In 1955, Schaeffer founded L'Abri fellowship, "where individuals have the opportunity to seek answers to honest questions about God and the significance of human life."

The Francis A. Schaeffer Foundation was founded to advance the availability of Schaeffer's ideas. His letters are available on their site.

The Shelter, another site dedicated to Schaeffer's work, has a list of his books, photos, and links to other relevant sites.

Covenant Seminary's Francis Schaeffer Institute offers course materials in pdf and audio form about Schaeffer in his early and late years.

Other Christianity Today articles on Schaeffer's influence include:

The Book Report: Things We Ought to Know | Charles Colson's apologetic—and call to action—is in the tradition of Francis Schaeffer. (January 10, 2000)

The Dissatisfaction of Francis Schaeffer (Parts 1 and 2) | Thirteen years after his death, Schaeffer's vision and frustrations continue to haunt evangelicalism. (March 1997)

Inside CT: Midwives of Francis Schaeffer | March 3, 1997

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Eric	Posted: April 01, 2007 6:32 AM


Schaeffer loved the enemies of the gospel enought to listen to them and to take their concerns and criticisms seriously. Sure his mind was troubled; that was and is an appropriate response to a world gone mad.

Stephen Fox

Posted: March 29, 2007 8:42 PM

Most of you know Barry Hankins of Baylor U is about to publish a book about Schaefer. Given Hankins has written about Al Mohler and Karl Rove's operative in the SBC, Richard Land, his book should be seminal, coloring the lament in this CT Essay. I am waiting for Mark Noll's assessment of Hankins book when it is published. I fear Schaefer may finally be put in some analogy to Robert E. Lee, where folks like Randall Balmer and Jim Wallis will be remembered as the Lincolns of the culture war within the evangelical community. Would make Schaefer something of a tragic figure. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, his tragedy may be more a function of how his legacy was abused by the likes of Mohler and Land to distort in the Baptist world at least, a nobler legacy of how justice politics nuances the critical foundation of Separation and Church and State. I am cashing in with Carter and Clinton and the new Baptist Covenant, as holding more promise than Schaefer's legacy.

Greg Livingstone

Posted: March 29, 2007 8:13 AM


Before I went to L'Abri I was secretly "ashamed of the Gospel". After being there, I came out as a lion...never to doubt the Bible or the Gospel again! I realized it was the non-Christians who were hiding their heads in the sand! And Schaeffer modeled compassion, and sent me back to lay down my life for the Muslims Dr. Greg Livingstone, Founder, Frontiers

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