How Should We Then Live? And other Titles by Rev. Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer, Philosopher
50 videos • 4,377 views • by Christof Bucherer Why you should read or watch Francis Schaeffer. How Then should We Live was written in an atmosphere dominated by the great lights of learning in Europe who were building an existentialist worldview out of the wreckage of two world wars and the collapse of the academy as a leader in enlightenment (and under the distant looming shadow of the heirs of Marx and Lenin), given the dark age the horrible wars demonstrated beyond all doubt. Iconoclastic former Bultmannian and evangelical theologian Eta Linnemann expands on the path to and then beneath the line of despair a bit, with particular reference to modernist theology and its philosophical roots. In so doing, she shows some of the ways in which Schaeffer’s work continues to be highly relevant and valid: New Anger fights New Anger, like Hegel describes, to arrive at the ultimate synthesis, the anti-Christian world government with the destruction of 6/7th of the world population! https://www.facebook.com/groups/26028... Eta Linnemann, former Bultmannian NT Scholar There is nothing in historical-critical theology that has not already made its appearance in philosophy. Bacon (1561 – 1626), Hobbes (1588 – 1679), Descartes (1596 – 1650), and Hume (1711 – 1776) laid the foundations: inductive thought as the only source of knowledge; denial of revelation; monistic worldview; separation of faith and reason; doubt as the foundation of knowledge. Hobbes and Hume established a thoroughgoing criticism of miracles; Spinoza (1632 – 1677) also helped lay the basis for biblical criticism of both Old and New Testaments. Lessing (1729 – 1781) invented the synoptic problem. Kant’s (1724 – 1804) critique of reason became the basic norm for historical-critical theology. Hegel (1770 – 1831) furnished the means for the process of demythologising through the Hegelian dialectic model for socio-cultural evolution that Rudolph Bultmann (1884 – 1976) would effectively implement a century later – after the way had been prepared by Martin Kähler (1835 – 1912). Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) . . . reduced faith to a leap that left rationality behind. He cemented the separation of faith and reason and laid the groundwork for theology’s departure from biblical moorings . . . . by writing such criticism off as benign . . . . Heidegger (1889 – 1976) laid the groundwork for reducing Christian faith to a possibility of self-understanding; he also had considerable influence on Bultmann’s theology. From Karl Marx . . . came theology of hope, theology of revolution, theology of liberation. [Biblical Criticism on Trial (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2001), pp. 178 – 9.] Eta Linneman in "The Roots and Fruits of Liberal/Liberationist Theology" http://www.angelfire.com/pro/kairosfo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta_Lin... http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/doc... Video 7 has been deleted on YouTube! I found it here: https://vimeo.com/19640017 The reason why it was deleted, is for political reasons. I can prove it, since it gives the title. I download it for safety reason, since I don't want it to be destroyed. https://www.youtube.com/user/schaeffe... - http://www.labri-ideas-library.org/le... - Complete List of Dr. Francis Schaeffers studies https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/08/3... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Sho... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.ph... https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?... https://www.facebook.com/1237427231/v... http://buchererpianos.ch/Schaeffers_v... (chart1 of decent of philosophy) http://buchererpianos.ch/Schaeffers_v... (2).gif (chart2 of decent of philosophy) ...Kant and Hegel, crossing "the line of despare". That means, Truth became relative and therefore the Bibel was recected as basis for protestant Christians and Christian society, which believed finally in democracy, after having belived in feudalism (the chief of captain says where it goes along - that is, the medicine man and the chief, or the Pope and the King/Kaiser/Cesar - which in a village context boils down to the pastor and the village president, in American history: the President and the Bible his swears by by prayer of any prominent preacher, like Billy Graham). Since Obama the belief, that America is a Christian country, the rests of this belief have been destroyed. Now Americans believe "we are a secular country" despite the President still swears by the Bible. So, there is a contradiction which is shown in riots, all over the country. The atheistic left is fighting the theistic right. Christians become unpopular. http://www.tonybartolucci.com/reading...