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n Philadelphia in the late 1920's, a young teenage see for himself if God exists. Within met at a church
boy decided that he didn't need God. He had tried six months, he was convinced that theology debate,
Ichurch, and it didn't give him the answers he was God is real and that the Bible is His were both eager for
looking for. revealed Word to mankind. opportunities to
After a time of living as a self-proclaimed agnostic, he In 1930, eighteen-year-old Francis speak out in defense
decided to read the Bible, beginning with Genesis, and August Schaeffer prayed to receive of conservative
Christ as his Saviour. From that doctrine. As a pastor
day, for more than fifty years, of several churches
Schaeffer was passionately com- throughout Penn-
mitted to the proclamation and s y l v a n i a a n d
rational defense of the Gospel. Missouri, Schaeffer
One of the foremost Christian was grieved at the
thinkers and apologists of this compromise he saw
century, he wrote twenty-four in many mainline
books, which have been translated Protestant denomi- Francis Schaeffer
into more than twenty languages. nations.
Schaeffer's basic message is the Continued on p. 8
same - God's Word is the only guide
man needs to interpret his past and
solve contemporary problems.
When Schaeffer graduated from
Faith Theological Seminary in 1938,
the United States faced many
perplexing new social and religious
problems. The Evangelical
Movement was threatened by
encroaching liberal ideologies,
which argued that the Bible is not a
reliable source of truth.
He and his wife Edith, whom he had