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2007年04月13日
Good Books: The Great Evangelical Disaster by Francis Schaeffer
I am now about four fifths through "The Great Evangelical Disaster" by the late Francis Schaeffer. I am ashamed to admit that even though I knew about this book I never took the time to buy it or read it until now. I am finding it really well written and easy to understand and even though over 20 years have passed since it was published it seems to be really timely. While reading it I was reminded of "The Battle for the Bible" by Harold Lindsell. This is a book that I have read many times and which is also a very good book. However, Schaeffer presents his material in a way that only he can. I strongly recommend "The Great Evangelical Disaster". If some of you have never read Schaeffer before, this might be a good book to start with.
投稿者 bethany : 2007年04月13日 10:20
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Schaeffer had no direct knowledge of the current postmodern drift in evangelicalism under the "emergent" heading, but gets to the heart of it nevertheless. It is amazingly timely for a 23 year old book.
He speaks over and over again about courageously "drawing a line" and yet doing so with tears, not with stridency or contentiousness.
Good stuff.
投稿者 TerryD : 2007年04月14日 07:13
Terry, I'm glad you figured out how to make comments in spite of the Japanese instructions! I'm looking forward to future contributions.
投稿者 Paul Sunde : 2007年04月14日 10:12