Francis A. Schaeffer

[baron]

Well just received my 5 volume set. It's paperback wish it would of been hardcover though. Paperback is easier to read in a car though. I think I will start with volume 3 which has No Little People, True Spirituality, The New Super-Spirituality, Two Contents, Two Realities. Any one else order the set?

 

[Theogenes]

I got my set back in 1982. Hardcover, multicolored. I saw FAS at a L'abri conference that June in Rochester, MN. Ahhh, the memories.

 

[Kevin]

My mum bought me a set in the mid 80's for my b-day. I was a student at a fundy school then & I read the entire set one year & it changed my life. I was introduced to reformed writers via FS & went to L'abri in Mass a couple of years later.

 

[devonturnbaugh]

Yea I ordered the set when it went on sale at CBD and started with vol 1. I blew through the God who is there and was very pleased with FS writing on philosophy and orthodox christianity. His insights were historically accurate and theologically dealt with in a way that was profound. I think that FS's insight into cultural trends is a necessity for us to deal with the things we are currently confronted with in our day and age. I personally love the guy.

 

[nicnap]

I got my set back in 1982. Hardcover, multicolored. I saw FAS at a L'abri conference that June in Rochester, MN. Ahhh, the memories.

I have the multi-colored set as well. Although, mine are all paperback except for volume three. I have no idea why that is, but that is how it came.

I may not agree with Francis Schaeffer at every single point, but he is still, by far, my favorite apologist. He wasn't some mere ivory tower intellectual; he put the rubber to the road, and his money where his mouth was. I admire him for that, and know many were changed by his ministry.

 

[Jack K]

His writings were helpful to me in my college days. I think that's mostly just because, in an academic world that maintained Christians were culturally ignorant and shallow thinkers, he proved otherwise.

 

[baron]

As I said I started with volume 3 No Little People. This is a set of 16 sermons they suggest you read out loud. They are so simple but so profound. I have read The God Who Is There, and found when I was reading I could follow him but when I put it down it all vanished. This due to the word's he used. I was unfimiliar with. But 20 years ago I wanted to buy his complete work but never did. So now I have it and will try and understand one of the best thinker's as people say he was. As I mentioned above his sermons are great and easy so far to understand.

 

[jwithnell]

I came to Christ reading Francis Schaeffer's work and he set my early theology. When looking for a church, I was trying to find one that taught the same kind of thing. (Wow, did the Lord bless along those lines!) I too spent some time in the late 80s at the Massachusetts L'Abri. I never did order the multi-volume set, but have used How Should We Then Live as the backbone for one of our home schooling years.

 

[LawrenceU]

Schaeffer's work is what started the ball rolling in bringing me to a Reformed understanding of Scripture. I used to sit and read his materials in my father's office after school while he was either attending faculty meeting or grading papers. Man, that was a long time ago.