At a glance
- Age
- 72
- Born
- January 30, 1912
- From
- Germantown
- Lives in
- Ollon
- Nationality
- United States
Biography
The house in Switzerland is the thing most people encounter first. L'Abri was a community founded by Francis Schaeffer and his wife Edith, and it became the setting for the kind of long, unhurried conversation about belief and doubt that made his name. Edith Schaeffer was a prolific author in her own right, and the project belonged to both of them.
Schaeffer worked as an evangelical theologian and philosopher and served as a Presbyterian pastor. His argument was with theological modernism, which he rejected in favour of what he described as a more historic Protestant faith. Alongside that, he pressed a presuppositional method in Christian apologetics — an approach he was convinced could meet the questions his own era was actually asking, rather than answering older ones nobody had posed.
He was born in Germantown on 30 January 1912 and died on 15 May 1984. What draws people back to his material is that combination: a man arguing for an older orthodoxy while insisting it had to be explained to the present, in a place where anyone could turn up and ask.
Schaeffer worked as an evangelical theologian and philosopher and served as a Presbyterian pastor. His argument was with theological modernism, which he rejected in favour of what he described as a more historic Protestant faith. Alongside that, he pressed a presuppositional method in Christian apologetics — an approach he was convinced could meet the questions his own era was actually asking, rather than answering older ones nobody had posed.
He was born in Germantown on 30 January 1912 and died on 15 May 1984. What draws people back to his material is that combination: a man arguing for an older orthodoxy while insisting it had to be explained to the present, in a place where anyone could turn up and ask.
