Francis Schaeffer was amazing, right up there with C.S. Lewis as a Christian philosopher. His son is… “not so much.” Schaeffer Sr. helped to shape my early Christian experience.

Schaeffer Sr. was a brilliant man, many of whose works I’ve read. I’ve also listened to some of his speeches. Like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Schaeffer wasn’t anti-American, and I never heard him compare the USA to Nazi Germany. What they did say, however, was that America was becoming increasingly secular.

As far as Schaeffer jr., just think Ron Reagan Sr., and Ron Reagan jr.

tikvah on March 18, 2008 at 1:28 AM

Agreed; another difference is that Schaeffer (the older and saner one) never acted like anyone owed him anything. Nor were his words shod with anger or malice, as seems to be the case in so much of what has been revealed of late from the good Reverend Wright’s missives.

Franky could never fill his father’s boots. Pity.

I will continue to be entertained by this Obama self destruction. Along with all of you I’m looking forward to his song and dance routine tomorrow as he attempts to defend the indefensible.

One key difference between Schaeffer’s criticism of our society and Wright’s is that Schaeffer was more calling us back to what we had been, and Wright doesn’t think there was ever anything good to return to.

Frank, on the other hand, is on a crusade to repent of his father’s “sins.” A talented writer, but battling a legion of demons.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2008/002/1.32.html

Yawn…

TheBigOldDog on March 17, 2008 at 7:17 PM

I love it when someone can sum it up in one word.

locomotive

Yes, that Francis Shaeffer. And Franky is rebelling against everything his brilliant father stood for.

The only controversy he stirred up was in ecumenical circles with his in-your-face fundamental Protestant-ism.

His son sounds like he has issues.

What’s a huckabee?

peacenprosperity on March 17, 2008 at 7:48 PM

the healing has begun.

Hmmm, nobody’s called Rev. Wright a traitor?

Frank was raised by evangelical Christians, as noted above, had a famous and well respected father, went through a rebellious phase and (dunno what-all happened but in the end he) converted to Eastern Orthodoxy as an adult. Have heard him speak: he’s an excellent speaker and was eloquently pro-life at the time. One of his books was a defense of art against some Christians’ narrow (as he saw it) view of it, another was a novel, Portofino, a funny, well written semiautobiographical story of a young boy’s view of his fundamentalist (that’s a descriptor, not an insult) Christian parents.

Am with michele above. Frank’s shilling for Obama given how pro-life he is (or was) is really surprising, and very disappointing. I don’t know if he actually turned his back on God (the description of the latest book on Amazon leaves this unclear) but he’s very deluded now, to say the least, if he supports this proabortion far-left socialist.

As a former … theologian,

psrch on March 17, 2008 at 8:39 PM

Former? Say it ain’t so.

Schaeffer’s son seems to fall into that mold. His statements suggest that either he’s never read what his father wrote, or that he did but misunderstood what he actually said.

Sad, really.

Oh…THAT “Frank”

whew

franksalterego on March 17, 2008 at 8:34 PM

Heh.