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A forum for discussing matters of moment, from a curmudgeonly perspective. (The ideas posted here do not necessarily represent those of any organization with which I am a part). Rude and insulting remarks will not be published, but civil disagreement is welcome.
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- You Should Know About This Man: Francis Schaeffer
- Oh, It's Exotic!
- Bravo to Roger Scruton
- Musing on Monk
- No Answers to Real Problem: Jihad
- More Like Him
- Jazz Notes
- Guest Post From Sarah Geis on Donald Miller
- The Living and the Dead
- And Obama Did Nothing to Support the Iranian Peopl...
- Digging Digg?
- Social Media
- Sign of the times
- More Bad Obama News
- Holiday for Outsiders
- Words
- New Reality TV: Ignoramus No More
- Book Review: Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life
- TV Insanity, Take 2000000000000000000000000000000
- Out in the Streets: Matthew 25:31-46
- Book Review: "The Deniable Darwin" by David Berlinski
- Steele Speaks
- "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing"
- 2009 Constructive Curmudgeon Awards
- Harry Reid's Fascism
- Therefore I hated life; because the work that is w...
- What Next?
- Holland: Once Famous for Freedom of Speech
- Islamic Law for the US
- Graham on Islam
- Seriousness in Preaching (updated)
- "On the Road with Duke Ellington" (DVD, 2002)
- The Evangelical Mind
- Sincere Silence
- Duty
- Duke: Beyond Category
- Groothuis on Tillich
- Christmas Song
- This
- Crazy Love
- How to Read a Book
- Unmasking the New Age (again)
- Lectures on Religions
- The Examined Life
- Monk!
- Colorado Senators for Abortion
- Nice Chop
- Obama on Afganistan
- "Naima"
- Award to Stephen Meyer
- "Intelligent Design and the State University: Acce...
- "Obstinancy in Religious Belief"
- For What It's Worth
- Another Scandal
- Doug Groothuis on The Manhattan Declaration This S...
- On the Compatibility of Ontological Equality, Hier...
- War on Human Embryos
- Skunks
- Exhortation
- Article on "The Deniable Darwin."
- A Most Serious Error of Judgment
- Another Voice for Reason
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About Me
- Douglas Groothuis, Ph.D.
- I am a Christian, philosopher, teacher. My most recent of my twenty books is Beyond the Wager. My magnum opus is Christian Apologetics: A Comprehensive Case for Biblical Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2011). I have published ten others, including Truth Decay and On Jesus.
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Indeed. Every Christian should know about this man - one of the greatest authors of the 20th century IMHO. It is amazing how relevant Schaeffer's writings still are to the church of our day, and it is sobering to look and see how much further we are down the slippery slope of humanistic self idolatry since his passing.
In an age of nearly useless (read injurious) fluff preachers on TV and in print, Schaeffer's writings were, and are, a life jacket of convicting and challenging food for thought.
I am in a doctorate class right now, and writing a paper about Schaeffer. One thing I need to respond to is whether he would accept other people's viewpoints. When he was so staunch about standing firm on the Truth, I'm tempted to say "No"...how would you respond?
Camilla:
He could not accept as true positions he did not hold. A and non-A cannot both be true. However, he was a master of conversation with unbelievers. His whole ministry grew out of that. He was a compassionate man with "big ears" to use a jazz phrase. He knew how to listen. He also knew that if one criticizes a nonChristian worldview, one must "receive blows as well" when the nonChrisian challenges our own view.
The best book about the man and his thought is Francis Schaeffer: an Authentic Life by Duriez.
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