![]() As with The God Who Is There, it amazes me that Schaeffer wrote this over fifty years ago. ![]() ![]() Although I occasionally struggled to grasp a point here or there, or became confused when it seemed like he was explaining the same concepts in depth for a second time, and even disagreed with him on several points (or at least thought he misrepresents a few thinkers, based on my limited knowledge), Escape from Reason is very densely packed with earnest thought that is helpful in navigating the monolithic cultural worldview that has resulted from our virtual connectedness. Schaeffer begins with Thomas Aquinas, who distinguished between the notions of “nature” and “grace” in the 13th century and follows this distinction through theology, philosophy, art, and culture, from the pre-Reformation through the Renaissance and up to the existentialists of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() “These things are never merely theoretical, because men act the way they think.”īuilding upon the ideas that he put forth in The God Who Is There, Francis Schaeffer’s Escape from Reason is a further plea to modern Christians to engage our degenerating culture in honest debate, to understand the thought forms that have insidiously crept into it, and to pit these newfangled worldviews against the unchanging Word of God. ![]()
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