Eric's Reviews > The Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy: Three Essential Books in One Volume

This one was so good that I am re-reading it again immediately. Some comments he has to make about our being on the trailing edge of the science-based age of reason bear careful consideration, although I am quite sure I would need another look at the current landscape of the field of philosophy to accept his claims in their entirety. It was an excellent companion to the reading of NT Wright's "Simply Good News" and follow on to Mary Poplin's "Is Reality Secular?"

On my second read, in Chap 6 of "Escape from Reason," Schaeffer has a passage that reads, "I have come to the point where, when I hear the word Jesus - ... - I listen carefully because I have with sorrow become more afraid of the word Jesus than almost any other word in the modern world. The word is used as a contentless banner, and our generation is invited to follow it." It struck as one of the major truth he has written of, and causes me to keep it ready on my shelf to pull down again soon. It is a rich work.