How should we then live?

the rise and decline of western thought and culture

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288 pages

English language

Published Feb. 13, 1983 by Crossway Books.

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978-0-89107-292-8
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As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society's state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God's revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible's morals, values, and meaning. - Publisher.

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It quickly became obvious that this book has been an influential text for politically conservative Christians in the U.S. for several decades. Schaeffer makes the same arguments and targets all the familiar villains (humanists, evolution, government, media, universities, hippies, inner cities, bisexuals, the USSR, etc.) If all philosophy is footnotes to Plato, then maybe most Republican memes are reiterations of Schaeffer.

Worth reading just to learn the ideas that have been motivating folks in the Religious Right since the 1970s.

Subjects

  • Civilization, Christian
  • Civilization, Western