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Fathers and Sons: Francis and Frank Schaeffer.

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I've not read Frank Schaeffer's book Crazy For God, but I've read plenty about it, and have taken part in some online discussions of the book. The reaction to Schaeffer's book on his parents, Francis and Edith, has been mixed, ranging from welcome relief at his honest look at the lives of his parents to outrage that he would write what he did.

I've appreciated Francis Schaeffer's books for years, particularly his take on arts and Christianity, though I only own a few. His classic book, How Should We Then Live? was a good challenge for me and a springboard into Chuck Colson's How Now Shall We Live?

I've not read Frank Schaeffer's book. I'm not really that interested in it, neither out of a positive or negative reaction to all of these reviews. I'm just not much for reading biographies or tell-all books. I've no doubt that Francis Schaeffer was not a perfect human being and had his unsightly qualities, yet still be able to read his work and be incredibly blessed by what he is saying. God uses clay pots, after all. He uses the stumbling, bumbling, stuttering, easily angered, fallible people to do His work -- why would Schaeffer have been any different?

Regardless, Os Guinness (another of my favorite authors) has written a review of the book that is, without question, the best I've read yet. Guinness writes his review with more than just a mere book review at the heart of what he is saying. I recommend reading the review in full: Fathers and Sons.

UPDATE: Here's a slightly harsher take on the Frank Schaeffer phenomenon.

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