Few Christians have had a greater impact during the last half ofthe twentieth century than Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer. A man with aremarkable breadth of cultural interest, with penetrating insightinto modern life, and with a clear sense of spiritual reality,Schaeffer was also a man who cared deeply about people and theirsearch for truth and reality in their lives.
With the publication of this Trilogy, Dr. Schaeffer's threefoundational books are available for the first time in one volume.Schaeffer himself considered these three books to be essential toeverything he wrote (twenty-three books in all), and it is hereespecially that we see his ability to understand the deep need ofmodern man for truth, beauty, and meaning in life.
In the first book, The God Who Is There, Schaeffershows how modern thought has abandoned the idea of truth withtragic consequences in every area of culture--from philosophy, toart, to music, to theology, and within culture as a whole.
Escape from Reason, the second book, explainsespecially how the disintegration of modern life and culture growsfrom corrupted roots that reach far into the past.
In the last book, He Is There and He Is Not Silent,Schaeffer contrasts the silence and despair of modern life with theChristian answer that God can indeed be known because Heis there and He is not silent. In addition to theconvenience of having Schaeffer's three foundational books in onevolume, the Trilogy is especially valuable in that it uses the textrevised and updated by Schaeffer shortly before his death.
Why was Schaeffer able to understand and communicate soeffectively to a generation? The best way to know is to find outfirsthand, by reading his essential works as found in this Trilogy.Few who begin this journey will come to the end without havingtheir life profoundly changed.
