Re: [asa] Books on History of Philosophy / POS

As a non-philosopher ( and Dave will concur!) I find Schaeffer rather lacking. I found his stuff great until I looked at everything behind what he wrote and it did not add up.His work is superficial and very sweeping. I also spent a month at L'Abri when his son-in-law Udo introduced me to the Genesis Flood and said it was a wonderful book. Neither he nor Schaeffer were pleased with my gentle analysis of the book and other YEC works!

Schaeffer is stuck on faith /reason dichotomy and the curse of Aquinas. As I went on I found old Aquinas should not be forgot, nor old acquaintances! His savaging of Barth etc annoyed me.

Michael
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  From: D. F. Siemens, Jr.
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  As a philosopher, I was not impressed with the work by Schaeffer I read some decades back. Don't remember which one it was, but I was asked if I would teach a Sunday school class based on it. He began his "philosophical" analysis where a proper philosophical approach would end.
  Dave (ASA)

  On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:16:06 -0400 "Mountainwoman" <hrc54@alltel.net> writes:
    For the history of western philosophy, there's Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture," Fleming H Revell Co., 1976.

    Paul Bruggink (ASA Member)
    Clarington, PA

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