Escape from Reason

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.



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 is the author, coauthor, or contributor to over ninety-five books, including Does God Exist?, Universals, The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology, Consciousness and the Existence of God, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, Love Your God With All Your Mind, The God Question, and Debating Christian Theism. In his distinguished career, Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 175 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ for ten years. The founder and director of Eidos Christian Center, he also previously served as a bioethicist for PersonaCare Nursing Homes, Inc. headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Moreland?s ideas have been covered by both popular religious and non-religious outlets, including the New Scientist, Christianity Today, PBS's "Closer to Truth," and WORLD magazine. In 2016 Moreland was selected by The Best Schools as one of the "50 most influential living philosophers."



Francis A. Schaeffer founded the L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and was the author of many books, including The God Who Is There. Until his death in 1984, he was also a noted speaker with a worldwide ministry. His ministry continues through his books, with over two million copies in print.

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


Modern Modern Science


Modern Modern Morality


Hegel


Kierkegaard and the Line of Despair
Chapter 4


The Leap


Secular Existentialism


The New Theology


Upper Story Experiences


Linguistic Analysis and 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