A review by shoelessmama
How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture by Francis A. Schaeffer

4.0

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around everything I read in this book. Although it was written 40 years ago I felt that the material remains pertinent and was at times prophetic. It was easy to think about the advances in science and the events that have transpired, etc. since the writing of this book taking them into account and applying them to the author's theories. I won't say that I agreed with everything that the author had to say but I found all of it thought-provoking. Despite the author's possible (probable) unfairness to some historical figures (notably Thomas Aquinas and Francis Bacon) the author's overall message remains undamaged for me. History is interpreted differently by different people (and when it comes to television it get's sensationalized to keep you tuned in through the commercial break). Upon finishing this book I wish I had someone to pick it apart with in person... especially the bits that went a little over my head.