A monumental work that draws on specially collected oral history to fully portray the person, work, and teaching of one of the most important figures in modern Christianity.

Nearly twenty-five years after his death, Francis Schaeffer's impact as one of the foremost shapers of modern Christianity still reverberates within the church and contemporary culture. A pastor, apologist, best-selling author, and activist whose work and ministry reached around the world, Schaeffer also managed to deeply and personally influence people of every age and position-men, women, youth, and children;...

This text overturns the misapplication of a divided worldview of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and their forerunners, G.K. Chesterton and George MacDonald. Analysing their literary, scholarly, and interpersonal texts, this book clarifies the unities of their thinking through literature and language, humanism, philosophy of the personal journey, philosophy of history, and Christian mythopoeia.