There are books that comment on the culture. Others speak to the Church. But once in a while, a book cuts through both the secular fog and the ecclesiastical confusion with surgical clarity. Francis Schaeffer’s The Great Evangelical Disaster is one of those rare works. First published in 1984, the book served as a trumpet…
Francis Schaeffer Encounters a Secular Humanist
Francis Schaeffer (1912–1984) was a Presbyterian pastor, philosopher, and Christian apologist whose ministry left a profound mark on 20th-century evangelical thought. Born in Pennsylvania, Schaeffer pastored several churches in the United States before moving to Switzerland, where he founded L’Abri Fellowship in 1955 with his wife, Edith. L’Abri (French for “the shelter”) became a refuge…
Biblical Christianity vs. Secular Humanism – a Worldview Comparison
Secular Humanism, as a distinct worldview, arose out of the Enlightenment, a movement in 17th- and 18th-century Europe that emphasized reason, science, and individual autonomy. Its ideological roots can be traced to philosophers like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and later, Charles Darwin. However, the term Secular Humanism began to crystallize in the 20th century with…