Francis A. Schaeffer

[mjdancefreak]

Hey
Just a question I'm interested in. If you think that's stupid, close this thread.
Does anybody of you know Francis A. Schaeffer? What do you think 'bout him (his books) ??

I don't think I'm the only one who knows'em. I'm just wondering....

thx...

 

[mjdancefreak]

hmmm... FRANCIS not franICIS

 

[truthnluv]

Hey
Just a question I'm interested in. If you think that's stupid, close this thread.
Does anybody of you know Francis A. Schaeffer? What do you think 'bout him (his books) ??

I don't think I'm the only one who knows'em. I'm just wondering....

thx...

I have a seven volume set called Systematic Theology. Schaeffer is the author. He's good overall. I don't agree with everything He says... For example: His teaching of "hypostatic union." This asserts that Christ was fully man(body soul and spirit) and fully God though this fact was not acted upon or acknowledged fully." So, in effect He had two spirits... one that was a man's spirit and one that was God's spirit and He simply chose to ignore the God part while he lived His life here on earth. Uhhhh, ...I don't think so.

Christ was God in the form of sinful flesh(Phil.2:6-8). He was simply God in a man's body. He grew in wisdom because wisdom is the application of knowledge not because He actually needed to learn. He asked questions in order to reveal ignorance and then to give the truth, not because He didn't know.

But overall Schaeffer is good, in my opinion. It has been said his books are a difficult read requiring a good dictionary to be kept handy.

truthnluv

 

[Captain_Scott]

i know a little about him. YOU could probably find his stuff at http://www.discerningreader.com/

I also know that Frank peretti like him. He usues alot of his stuff in speaches and stuff...realy good stuff

 

[truthnluv]

I have a seven volume set called Systematic Theology. Schaeffer is the author. He's good overall. I don't agree with everything He says... For example: His teaching of "hypostatic union." This asserts that Christ was fully man(body soul and spirit) and fully God though this fact was not acted upon or acknowledged fully." So, in effect He had two spirits... one that was a man's spirit and one that was God's spirit and He simply chose to ignore the God part while he lived His life here on earth. Uhhhh, ...I don't think so.

Christ was God in the form of sinful flesh(Phil.2:6-8). He was simply God in a man's body. He grew in wisdom because wisdom is the application of knowledge not because He actually needed to learn. He asked questions in order to reveal ignorance and then to give the truth, not because He didn't know.

But overall Schaeffer is good, in my opinion. It has been said his books are a difficult read requiring a good dictionary to be kept handy.

truthnluv

Sorry,.... I think my set is by Lewis Sperry Chafer. My mistake.

 

[artybloke]

He was simply God in a man's body.

Er, no, that's Nestorianism. The classic position is that Christ is all man and all God at the same time. Not a god wearing a cloak of humanity. That's heresy.

 

[12volt_man]

I like him. I remember before he died, he was a regular guest on the Bible Answer Man and I really enjoyed the vigorous debates between him and Walter.

When I was involved in youth ministry, we used to do a lot of things with his son, Frank.

 

[artybloke]

For a while I like him, and he even got me to think a little. Unfortunately his bite sized distortions of philosophies he doesn't like are good ways to send your thinking backward not forward. He's basically like all fundamentalists: his thinking is based on a rationalistic view of truth as opposed to a much broader and less Comtean view. It's interesting that Comte actually founded a religion on the idea that all truth had to be factual; I think his heirs include Francis Schaeffer and most fundamentalists.

I think he led the fundamentalists up the garden path, frankly; and it was only when I began to read deeply in the philosophy of religion that I realised how shallow and hollow his thinking was.