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Death in the City

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This is truly an amazing book. Schaeffer finds a way to make God truly real in this book while going through three books of the Bible. While walking the reader through Jeremiah we see how America today is so like the culture of that time. Read this book to find out what happens to that culture and possibly what will happen to America in the futue. This is on my top 10 books list!!! I loved it and hope you will find a copy somewhere and read it.

Schaeffer's understanding of society, and the meaning of God's work in it is unique and challenging. This book is one which packs a lot of information into a small number of pages, and enlightens the reader throughout. I highly recommend it, and all of Schaeffer's work, really.

The late great Francis Schaeffer wrote that the modern evangelical political activism has "drawn a line between the one total view of reality and the other total view of reality and the results this brings forth in government and law. And if you personally do not like some of the details of what they have done, do it better. But you must understand that all Christians have got to do the same kind of thing or you are simply not showing the Lordship of Christ in the totality of life." And in "Death in the City" Schaeffer offers a volume on the foundation to his philosophy of worldview. He writes to counter the 1960's counterculture movement that leads to not only antinomianism but ethical, spiritual, and cultural death that cunningly tries to overturn the truth.
The solution that Schaeffer provides is a return to scripture and the application of the general equity therein.

Chapters include:

- Death in the city
- The loneliness of man
- The message of judgment
- The significance o f men
- The man without the Bible
- The justice of God
- And more (expositions of chapters from Lamentations, Jeremiah, and Romans).

Schaeffer adds: "But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a personal-infinite God who has made men and women in His own image that they have a unique dignity of life as human beings. Human life then is filled with dignity, and the state and humanistically oriented law have no right and no authority to take human life arbitrarily in the way it is being taken."

Schaeffer encourages the believer to live the truth of scripture and persuasively call all men to do the same; to stand for truth, and live for true truth.

See my apologetic book that defends Christian truth utilizing moral absolutes:
There Are Moral Absolutes: How to Be Absolutely Sure That Christianity Alone Supplies The Conditions For Moral Certainty Through Presuppositional Apologetics
or
Truth, Knowledge and the Reason for God: The Defense of the Rational Assurance of Christianity

Drawing on the books of Romans, Lamentations and Jeremiah, Shaeffer explores deeply into scripture to look at this post-Christian world and how we should function as Christians in it. So what do we say to the man who doesn't know the Bible? How are we going to talk to him?

It was during the 20's that we began to make great leaps from the truth, and then throughout the 60's we put that freedom into overdrive. There was freedom, but freedom without form. Our culture keeps trying to find ways to fix problems when the core problem is that we have turned away from the true God; it is a never ending cycle. So if we think we are to live the Christian message and not have the world bear down on us we then don't understand the battle or, are not attempting to.

Do you truly believe He is there? As Christians, are we living as believers, or as the materialist?
Wish you well
Scott