Credo Magazine 2, 5 (October 2012)

The next issue of Credo is now out, this one devoted to ‘Francis Schaeffer at 100’.

According to the editorial blurb:

‘As many have observed, it is not an overstatement to say that the Schaeffers transformed, reshaped, and in many ways reformed American evangelicalism. Those writing in this new issue of Credo Magazine are proof, each writer bearing testimony to how Francis Schaeffer has made a monumental impact on how we understand and articulate the Christian faith and life in the world of ideas.’

The magazine is available to read here, from where also a 81.7 MB pdf of the whole issue can be downloaded.

Happy Birthday, Francis Schaeffer

Francis Schaeffer was born 100 years ago today (30 January). I suspect the blogosphere will be full of pieces about him as the day goes on.

Don Sweeting, for one, reflects on Schaeffer’s legacy in a helpful piece here, highlighting five points:

• Schaeffer understood the times

• Schaeffer believed in truth and made truth understandable to average lay people

• I learned about the lordship of Christ from Schaeffer

• Schaeffer was prophetic

• With all his outspokenness and advocacy, Schaeffer insisted that it was not just truth that mattered but also love

Colin Duriez on Francis Schaeffer

Colin Duriez, Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life (Nottingham: IVP, 2008), 240pp., ISBN 9781844743100, £12.99.

An illuminating and authoritative biography of one of the most significant figures in 20th-century evangelicalism, covering his early ministry as a pastor and children’s evangelist, his passion for mission, his commitment to truth, his struggles with faith, his love of art, his engagement with culture, his founding and shaping of L’Abri, and his political activism. Colin Duriez, who studied under Schaeffer and interviewed him, emphasises how Schaeffer lived what he believed and taught – hence, ‘an authentic life’.