1. Schaeffer in the 21st Century: Updates and Applications
Donald T. Williams, PhD
Toccoa Falls College

2. Francis A. Schaeffer

3. Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of God the Father” (Gal. 1:4).

4. Since the Seventies Fall of the Soviet Union Pro-Life Issues
The Economy
Terrorism
Rise of Post-Modernism

5. Fall of the Soviet Union
“. . . Could produce a situation that would be forever irreversible.”
“Forever” not a part of History
God is still Sovereign
But Consequences Remain
Russian poverty, corruption, instability
Communism still alive

6. Pro-Life Issues Abortion Infanticide/Euthanasia Stem-Cell Research
Movement losing Momentum?
Holiness and Love?
Infanticide/Euthanasia
Stem-Cell Research
Cloning

7. The Economy Personal Peace and Affluence Dot-Com Bubble Recession
Vanishing Surplus
Old Worries Back

8. Rise of Global Terrorism
Schaeffer’s Era concerned with Superpowers
Internet: Decentralization of Good and Evil
Add to the List of “Pressures”/”Hammer-Blows”

9. Christianity Absolute Universal GOD Eternity Meaning (reality) Christ
Relative Particular MAN Time Facts

10. Platonism Ideas ESSENCE Form (reality) (less real)
Things EXISTENCE Matter

11. Pantheism

12. Secularism No Absolutes No GOD No Meaning (no reality) (reality)
Relativism MAN Facts/Data

13. Post-Modernism

14. The Alternatives
THE IMPERSONAL
GOD

15. Rise of Post-Modernism
Reaction to Failure of Modernism
Modernism: Man’s effort to take control of Nature, History, and Human Destiny through Human Intellect alone
Intellect: Rational, Scientific Objectivity

16. Nature of Post-Modernism
Rejection of Authority
Next Step in Relativism
Modernist Relativism
Only “Scientific” Statements objectively True
Value/Meaning Truth Claims = Deluded
Post-Modernist Relativism
Nothing = Objective, not even Science
All Truth Claims = Evil (manipulation)

17. Jargon of Post-Modernism
Metanarrative
Totalizing/Centering Discourse
Logocentric
Socially Constructed
Deconstruction

18. Manifestations of Post-Modernism
Deconstruction (ultimate attack on Author-ity)
Militant Multi-Culturalism (“DWEMS”)
Groupthink (the new tribalism)
“Tolerance” as cloak for Relativism
Primacy of the Image

19. Christ “gave himself for our sins that He might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of God the Father” (Gal. 1:4).

20. How does Christ Deliver Us?
Awareness of the Need
A Purpose of the Atonement
Church as Christian Counter-Culture
Connection to Eternity
Church: Trans-Generational, Traditional
Scripture
Breaks the Power of the god of this Age

21. Schaeffer in the 21st Century: Updates and Applications
“I call upon you to join me in being different!”
Donald T. Williams, PhD
Toccoa Falls College

22. Mere Humanity Apologetics in the tradition of Schaeffer and Lewis
Explication of The Space Trilogy, Narnia, and Middle Earth in terms of the authors’ Christian faith
Reductionism beat soundly about the head and face . . .

23. CREDO The Doctrinal Basis of the Christian World View
“In Credo, Don Williams proclaims exactly what our world needs in this time of wobbling foundations.” -- Donna Fletcher Crowe
The ancient Faith for modern people!

24. The Devil’s Dictionary of the Christian Faith
If Screwtape had written The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church . . .
“Piously irreverent, stylishly traditional, affectionately combative, respectfully cheeky, and humorously serious.” -- Michael Bauman
“MEEK (adj.): Able to listen to preachers, theologians, and denominational officials with a humble mien and a straight face.”

25. STARS THROUGH THE CLOUDS
The collected poetry of Donald T. Williams
Exciting new innovations: Meter! Rhyme! Content!
One reviewer called the author “The Believer’s Robert Frost”