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Language
English
Description
The best-selling author of Voices from the Front presents a revealing memoir that recounts his childhood as the sons of evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer, his role in promoting the anti-abortion movement, and the crisis of faith that resulted in his embrace of a secular lifestyle.
Author
Publisher
Createspace
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God, an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts. He writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe....
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
c2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Frank Schaeffer has a problem with Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Dennett, and the rest of the New Atheists-the self-anointed "Brights." He also has a problem with the Rick Warrens and Tim LaHayes of the world-the religious fundamentalists. The problem is that he doesn't see much of a difference between the two camps. As Schaeffer puts it, they "often share the same fallacy: truth claims that reek of false certainties. I believe that there is an alternative...