- Escape from Reason
"Escape From Reason" is a philosophical work written by American theologian and Christian apologist
Francis A. Schaeffer , London: InterVarsity Press, first published in1968 . It is Book Two in Volume One of "The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer A Christian Worldview." Westchester, IL:Crossway Books,1982 . This is the second book of Francis Schaeffer's "Trilogy." It was written and published after "The God Who Is There " was written but released before that first book.Overview
Unlike the first, "
The God Who Is There ," London: Hodder and Stoughton July 1968, and third works in Schaeffer's "Trilogy", "Escape from Reason" is only loosely divided into seven chapters. Instead, each chapter contains a number of small sections, which offer a much clearer division of the prose. There are 39 such sections in all.Table of Contents
* Forward
Chapter one
* Nature and grace
* Aquinas and the autonomos
* Painters and writers
* Nature versus grace
* Leonardo da Vinci and RaphaelChapter two
* A unity of nature and grace
* The Reformation and man
* More about man
* Reformation, Renaissance and morals
* The whole manChapter three
* Early modern science
* Kant and Rousseau
* Modern modern science
* Modern modern morality
* Hegel
* Kierkegaard and the Line of DespairChapter four
* The leap
* Secular existentialism
* Religious existentialism
* The New Theology
* Upper storey experiences
* Linguistic analysis and the leapChapter five
* Art as the upper storey leap
* Poetry: the later Heidegger
* Art: André Malraux
* Picasso
* Bernstein
* Pornography
* The Theatre of the AbsurdChapter six
* Madness
* The 'upstairs' in film and television
* Upper storey mysticism
* Jesus the undefined bannerChapter seven
* Rationality and faith
* The Bible can stand on its own
* Beginning from myself and yet . . .
* The source of the knowledge we need
* The 'leap in the dark' mentality
* The unchanging in a changing worldReferences
* Richard H. Bube. (Review) "Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation." Vol 21, June 1969, pp. 54-55
* Alan F. Johnson. (Review) "Moody Monthly," Vol 69, June 1969, pp. 96-98.
* P. Lakey. (Review) "Gordon Review," Vol 11, Summer 1969, p. 241-245External links
* Todd Kappelman, [http://www.probe.org/theology-and-philosophy/worldview--philosophy/the-need-to-read-francis-schaeffer.html "The Need to Read Francis Schaeffer"] An overview of Schaeffer's Trilogy from Probe Ministries. Retrieved 25 September 2006.
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