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2007年05月22日
Good Books: A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer
I am continuing to try and get caught up on the books by Schaeffer that I for one reason or another have not yet read. My latest read is "A Christian Manifesto" published in 1981. What continues to amaze me is how current he always is. During the last month or so I have read quite a number of books published in the late 90s and these books basically say the same thing that Schaeffer is saying. The actual titles are "The New Absolutes" by William Watkins, "Legislatiing Morality" by Dr. Norman Geisler and Frank Turk, and "The Death of Truth" edited by Dennis McCallum. In a nutshell the theme is postmodernism-the need to understand it and how to react to it as a Christian.
I have lived in Japan now for over 50 years and it seems that the basic tenets of postmodernism have always been more or less accepted though that term was of course not around 50 years ago. I remember feeling that way when I first read "The God Who Is There"-all the things that Schaeffer warned about were already a part of the culture here.
From the standpoint of being an American citizen, reading these books has given me a new understanding of the importance of state rights vs. control by the centra government and also the fact that the American Supreme Court has in the past 40 years or so slowly but surely worked itself into a place of power that it was never supposed to have.
I again would challenge those of you who have not yet discovered Francis Scheffer to give him a read-basically all of his books are really good. Those who have read him in Japanese claim that his books are more difficult in Japanese than in English. English or Japanese, do try reading his books.
投稿者 bethany : 2007年05月22日 10:49
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