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Schaeffer in the 21 st Century: Updates and Applications

Schaeffer in the 21 st Century: Updates and Applications. Donald T. Williams, PhD Toccoa Falls College. Francis A. Schaeffer. Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of God the Father” (Gal. 1:4). Since the Seventies.

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Schaeffer in the 21 st Century: Updates and Applications

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  1. Schaeffer in the 21st Century: Updates and Applications Donald T. Williams, PhD Toccoa Falls College

  2. Francis A. Schaeffer

  3. Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of God the Father” (Gal. 1:4).

  4. Since the Seventies • Fall of the Soviet Union • Pro-Life Issues • The Economy • Terrorism • Rise of Post-Modernism

  5. Fall of the Soviet Union • “. . . Could produce a situation that would be forever irreversible.” • “Forever” not a part of History • God is still Sovereign • But Consequences Remain • Russian poverty, corruption, instability • Communism still alive

  6. Pro-Life Issues • Abortion • Movement losing Momentum? • Holiness and Love? • Infanticide/Euthanasia • Stem-Cell Research • Cloning

  7. The Economy • Personal Peace and Affluence • Dot-Com Bubble • Recession • Vanishing Surplus • Old Worries Back

  8. Rise of Global Terrorism • Schaeffer’s Era concerned with Superpowers • Internet: Decentralization of Good and Evil • Add to the List of “Pressures”/”Hammer-Blows”

  9. Christianity Absolute Universal GOD Eternity Meaning (reality) Christ (reality) Relative Particular MAN Time Facts

  10. Platonism Ideas ESSENCE Form (reality) (less real) Things EXISTENCE Matter

  11. Pantheism

  12. Secularism No Absolutes No GOD No Meaning (no reality) (reality) Relativism MAN Facts/Data

  13. Post-Modernism

  14. The Alternatives THE IMPERSONAL GOD

  15. Rise of Post-Modernism • Reaction to Failure of Modernism • Modernism: Man’s effort to take control of Nature, History, and Human Destiny through Human Intellect alone • Intellect: Rational, Scientific Objectivity

  16. Nature of Post-Modernism • Rejection of Authority • Next Step in Relativism • Modernist Relativism • Only “Scientific” Statements objectively True • Value/Meaning Truth Claims = Deluded • Post-Modernist Relativism • Nothing = Objective, not even Science • All Truth Claims = Evil (manipulation)

  17. Jargon of Post-Modernism • Metanarrative • Totalizing/Centering Discourse • Logocentric • Socially Constructed • Deconstruction

  18. Manifestations of Post-Modernism • Deconstruction (ultimate attack on Author-ity) • Militant Multi-Culturalism (“DWEMS”) • Groupthink (the new tribalism) • “Tolerance” as cloak for Relativism • Primacy of the Image

  19. Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of God the Father” (Gal. 1:4).

  20. How does Christ Deliver Us? • Awareness of the Need • A Purpose of the Atonement • Church as Christian Counter-Culture • Connection to Eternity • Church: Trans-Generational, Traditional • Scripture • Breaks the Power of the god of this Age

  21. Schaeffer in the 21st Century: Updates and Applications “I call upon you to join me in being different!” Donald T. Williams, PhD Toccoa Falls College

  22. Mere Humanity Apologetics in the tradition of Schaeffer and Lewis Explication of The Space Trilogy, Narnia, and Middle Earth in terms of the authors’ Christian faith Reductionism beat soundly about the head and face . . .

  23. CREDO The Doctrinal Basis of the Christian World View “In Credo, Don Williams proclaims exactly what our world needs in this time of wobbling foundations.” -- Donna Fletcher Crowe The ancient Faith for modern people!

  24. The Devil’s Dictionary of the Christian Faith If Screwtape had written The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . . . “Piously irreverent, stylishly traditional, affectionately combative, respectfully cheeky, and humorously serious.” -- Michael Bauman “MEEK (adj.): Able to listen to preachers, theologians, and denominational officials with a humble mien and a straight face.”

  25. STARS THROUGH THE CLOUDS The collected poetry of Donald T. Williams Exciting new innovations: Meter! Rhyme! Content! One reviewer called the author “The Believer’s Robert Frost”

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