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To: topcat54
Well, I very much part ways with Demar on his analysis of Schaeffer on this point and after reading his article I find it hard to believe he actually read the Schaeffer works he references. My bet is he just read a wikipedia type article about Schaeffer. In any event, his biggest gripe seems to be that Schaeffer doesn't agree with Gary Demar. I found this quote amusing:

"Schaeffer rightly decried a de facto sociological law—“law based only on what the majority of society thinks is in its best interests at a given moment”—but offered no worked-out worldview to counter and replace it."

This is laughable in that virtually all of Schaeffer's work was an extensive polemic against a humanist worldview contrasted with a detailed, "worked-out", comprehensive Christian worldview Schaeffer saw as the biblical alternitive. This is particularly true of "The God who is There" and "Escape from Reason". Schaeffer was the father of the modern "Christian worldview" movement and his entire legacy is a testament to the worldview Demar claims he failed to offer. Stick to eschatology Gary.

18 posted on 02/22/2011 12:16:16 PM PST by circlecity
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To: circlecity
This is laughable in that virtually all of Schaeffer's work was an extensive polemic against a humanist worldview contrasted with a detailed, "worked-out", comprehensive Christian worldview Schaeffer saw as the biblical alternitive.

In your opinion, what exactly was Schaeffer’s worldview in terms of the civil magistrate?

20 posted on 02/22/2011 1:12:19 PM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- an error of Biblical proportions.")
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