A Passionate Review

Yes indeed, after nearly a 2 month break in which we could find no writers and did a lot of traveling ourselves we have at last resumed our reviewing activities. We know you've missed us so we're going to give you a really bang-up review for you to enjoy.

This Friday July 26th Sarah Lepisto, discoverer of great archaeological artifacts and rapidly developing writer, will review the ultra-powerful "True Spirituality" by Francis Schaeffer.

Schaeffer has been one of the single most important influences on Evangelicalism in the last 100 years and started philosophical and apologetic trends that have snowballed and have given "ecletic" apologetic/evangelism a serious respectability. "True Spirituality" was birthed out of a massive spiritual crisis in Schaeffer's own life in the early 1950s and is a tract of sorts for a Christianity and spirituality in which all of life is under the Lordship of Christ including the faculties of intellect and reason. This was a pretty serious concept in the '50s and remains an incredibly important concept today.

Says Schaeffer of the crisis that brought forth this book,

"I faced a spiritual crisis in my own life. I had become a Christian from agnosticism many years before. After that I had become a pastor for ten years in the United States, and then for several years my wife Edith and I had been working in Europe. During this time I felt a strong burden to stand for a historical Christian position, and for the purity of the visible church. Gradually, however, a problem came to me - the problem of reality. This had two parts: first, it seemed to that among those who held the orthodox position, one saw little reality in the things that the Bible so clearly says should be the result of Christianity. Second, it gradually grew on me that my own reality was less than it had been in the early days after I had become a Christian. I realized that in honesty I had to go back and rethink my whole position."

In all her loquaciously wordy goodness and prose filled brilliance Miss Lepisto is certainly not to be missed on this one.