These books were timely, biblical, and compelling. It was the first of more than twenty books he would write before he died in 1984 at age seventy-two. The God Who Is There was published when Schaeffer was fifty-six years old. The history of evangelicalism in the twentieth century cannot be written without careful attention to his body of work. This smallish man with a high-pitched voice was the mentor I never met. It is no cliché to say the book changed my life for the better and helped define my calling. This was Christianity with backbone, brain, muscle, guts, and heart. He courageously ranged over philosophy, theology, painting, poetry, and all things cultural to demonstrate that the Christian worldview offers the best answers to life’s deepest questions. The book was The God Who Is There: Speaking Christianity into the Twentieth Century by Francis Schaeffer. I was back in school, trying to get my intellectual bearings as a fledgling and intellectually confused Christian. In the fall of 1976, I bought a medium-sized paperback book with an odd abstract cover in the University of Oregon bookstore in Eugene. For further information or to subscribe to the C HRISTIAN R ESEARCH J OURNAL go to: The full text of this article in PDF format can be obtained by clicking here. This article first appeared in the C HRISTIAN R ESEARCH J OURNAL, volume 39, number 04 (2016).
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