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Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness.How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy?

In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason.

Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern ethos. His critique demonstrates Christianity's promise for a new century, one in as much need as ever of purpose and hope.



Francis A. Schaeffer (1912–1984) was a pastor, theologian, and speaker with an international ministry who became one of the most influential figures in American evangelicalism during his lifetime. With his wife, Edith, he founded the L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland. He was the author of many books, including Escape from Reason and How Should We Then Live?, which have sold millions of copies worldwide.







J. P. Moreland (PhD, University of Southern California) is distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, in La Mirada, California. He has written or contributed to over ninety-five books, including The God Conversation,Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, In Search of a Confident Faith, and Love Your God With All Your Mind. Throughout his career Moreland has co-planted three churches, spoken and debated on over 200 college campuses around the country, and served with Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) for ten years. He was selected in August 2016 by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.



Foreword by J. P. Moreland

Preface



Chapter 1

Nature and Grace

Aquinas and the Autonomous

Painters and Writers

Nature Versus Grace

Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael



Chapter 2

A Unity of Nature and Grace

The Reformation and Man

More About Man

Reformation, Renaissance and Morals

The Whole Man



Chapter 3

Early Modern Science

Kant and Rousseau

ModernModern Science

Modern Modern Morality

Hegel

Kierkegaard and the Line of Despair



Chapter 4

The Leap

Secular Existentialism

The New Theology

Upper Story Experiences

Linguistic Analysisand the Leap



Chapter 5

Art as the Upper Story Leap

Poetry: The Later Heidegger

Art: Andre Malraux

Picasso

Bernstein

Pornography

The Theater of the Absurd



Chapter 6

Madness

The "Upstairs" in Film and Television

Upper Story Mysticism

Jesus the Undefined Banner



Chapter 7

Rationality and Faith

The Bible Can Stand on Its Own

Beginning from Myself and Yet

The Source of the Knowledge We Need

The "Leap in the Dark" Mentality

The Unchanging in a Changing World



Index

Index