THE CRITIQUES OF FRANCIS SCHAEFFER’S WORK

This paper will attempt to reflect Francis Schaeffer’s life and thought, with special emphasis on his apologetics. The primary resource was one of his books How Should We Then Live and also several books about Schaeffer from many authors: (1) Francis Schaeffer’s Apologetics: A Critique by Thomas Morris, (2) Reflection on Francis Schaeffer, edited by Ronald W. Ruegsegger, and (3) Francis Schaeffer: The Man and His Message, written by Louis Gifford Parkhurst, Jr. In his Verification Apologetical methods, he used of elements of common ground as a point of contact with unbelievers. Unlike the inductive approach, he majors on inner, existential values as well as outer empirical data. Also dissimilar with the pre-suppositional approach, Schaeffer’s method discovers and appeals to factual and personal data in confirmation of his hypothesis