Monday, August 29, 2011

Religion: Francis Schaefer



A blog post in the recent LA Times Arts section probably hoped I would laugh at Rev. Schaefer's video and dismiss it without even finishing the series. But I see a bit more here than "art-junk," though it is visibly poisoned by Schaefer's sympathy for destruction and -- perhaps even oppression -- in the name of pure salvation, symbolized and reducible to Christ. The view that Christ is crucial to any rational discussion is called "presuppositionalism:"
In Christian theologypresuppositionalism is a school of apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought. It presupposes that the Bible is divine revelation and claims to expose flaws in other worldviews. ... Presuppositionalism itself contrasts with classical apologetics and evidential apologetics. --Wikipedia

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