[unspun]

AFM, don't know Van Til at all - Rushdoony just a little. In the case of the latter, I can guess at why FS wouldn't want to give much credit. Didn't Rushdoony come down somewhere between Schaeffer and say, Oliver Cromwell, maybe closer to Cromwell?

[aardvark1]

I don't really understand your question...it's worded awkwardly.

RJR was persona non grata in some circles because of his theonomy. Although Schaeffer kept his distance from that crowd, he still could cite and credit his sources. Rushdoony's theology was much bigger than the theonomic straw man built by his critics. Intellectually, he was a giant. Schaeffer was able to take some of those ideas and dissiminate them to a much wider audience because he was much more well-known.