I would absolutely recommend this book, as long as it's read critically, by someone who knows not just what modern thinkers are saying, but why and how they're communicating.Įscape from Reason brings together a staggering array of academic disciplines, cultural trends and influential thinkers, and provides an integrative, mature analysis and critique of their ideas from within an historic Christian worldview. Kierkegaard's understanding of God as impossible and transcendent is relatable to the modern man, and may inspire him to seek out God, with God revealing himself as immanent, on his own terms. Schaeffer rejects Kierkegaard's understanding of God, that God is fundamentally other from reason this is a tragedy. This is most clear to me in his treatment of Kierkegaard. Yes, he gets the despair of modernity however, his defense of Biblical Christianity as a relevant modern worldview is ill-posed. While, factually, Schaeffer, seems to present most thinkers accurately, he does not fully get modern philosophy. His review of the western intellectual history is quick and accessible, and his great insight in this book is to point to Aquinas' fault of placing reason "upstairs"-assuming that human reason is immune to the fall. I love Schaeffer, the person, but I totally disagree with half of what he says.
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