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Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy?

In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason.

Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern ethos. His critique demonstrates Christianity's promise for a new century, one in as much need as ever of purpose and hope.



Francis A. Schaeffer (1912–1984) was a pastor, theologian, and speaker with an international ministry who became one of the most influential figures in American evangelicalism during his lifetime. With his wife, Edith, he founded the L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. He was the author of many books, including Escape from Reason and How Should We Then Live?, which have sold millions of copies worldwide.



J. P. Moreland (PhD, University of Southern California) is distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He has written or contributed to over ninety-five books, including The God Conversation,Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, and Love Your God With All Your Mind. Throughout his career Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 200 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) for ten years. He was selected in August 2016 by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.



Foreword by J. P. Moreland



Preface

Chapter 1



Nature and Grace



Aquinas and the Autonomous



Painters and Writers



Nature Versus Grace



Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael

Chapter 2



A Unity of Nature and Grace



The Reformation and Man



More About Man



Reformation, Renaissance and Morals



The Whole Man

Chapter 3



Early Modern Science



Kant and Rousseau



ModernModern Science



Modern Modern Morality



Hegel



Kierkegaard and the Line of Despair

Chapter 4



The Leap



Secular Existentialism



The New Theology



Upper Story Experiences



Linguistic Analysisand the Leap

Chapter 5



Art as the Upper Story Leap



Poetry: The Later Heidegger



Art: Andre Malraux



Picasso



Bernstein



Pornography



The Theater of the Absurd

Chapter 6



Madness



The "Upstairs" in Film and Television



Upper Story Mysticism



Jesus the Undefined Banner

Chapter 7



Rationality and Faith



The Bible Can Stand on Its Own



Beginning from Myself and Yet



The Source of the Knowledge We Need



The "Leap in the Dark" Mentality



The Unchanging in a Changing World



Index



Index



Schaeffer had a way of communicating Christianity to modern culture--we need more like him today. This book provides an excellent introduction to his ideas.