Book Review: How Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer
Pages: 265
Publisher: Crossway
Year: 1976 (2005)
Author: Francis Schaeffer
I wasn’t introduced to Francis Schaeffer until a few years ago, when on a particular forum his name was brought up with a recommendation to read the The Francis Schaeffer Trilogy, eventually leading me to read How Should We Then Live? I suspect I’ll review the former eventually, and probably book by book, but needless to say How Should We Then Live has been an invaluable book, especially in any course I’ve taken dealing with history and modern thought.
Schaeffer’s objective in this book was to outline how thought and idea shaped and molded culture, from Rome all the way to our present day (or, rather, his present day), presenting history as a continuous and unified flow. He then warns us where he sees our society heading and attempts to give us a solution, a way to change course. … (Read more)
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I’ve been re-reading Francis Schaeffer’s book How Should We Then Live in preparation for writing a review. While doing so I noticed that his video series (of the same title) had been uploaded to YouTube in it’s entirety. It’s definitely not HD quality nor is it flashy, but it is worth watching or given a chance for those who aren’t sure if they’re interested. Schaeffer was definitely unique in his ability to present the sum of history (up until his life time), showing how thoughts and world views impacted and shaped those cultures leading up to our own. I only first heard of him a few years ago in the four or five of his books that I’ve read, I can easily see why he’s highly regarded by Christian academics (even if they believe his analysis was flawed in this or that way).
New books, at least for me.
I was originally planning to revise a forum post I had made a while ago regarding the historicity of the resurrection and use that as my entry for today. However, after finding the forum post and reading it over, I’ve decided it will need to be entirely re-written — it’s awful. Hopefully I don’t think the same of what I’ve written here in a few years time. In any case, since I need to re-write what is essentially a twelve page essay, what follows now will be something a lot less formal.
After a fair bit of Red Alert 3, Fallout 3 and N.T Wright’s The Resurrection of the Son of God, I decided I needed something new, turns out I decided on some new books, which are as follows:
1. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture — Francis Schaeffer… (Read more)
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