Jun
19
2008
New Biography On Francis Schaeffer
Colin Duriez has appeared as a commentator on several mainstream documentaries, has authored biographies of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, and studied for several months under Francis Schaeffer in Swiss L’Abri before reading English and philosophy at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He writes books, edits, and lectures.
His most recent book Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life is a biography of Dr. Schaeffer which draws on over 150,000 words of specially collected oral history to reveal who he was and how he became one of the foremost shapers of modern evangelical Christianity.
Here are some of the endorsements:
Francis Schaeffer was an amazing man—intellectually brilliant and set on truth, emotionally intense, devoted to God and compassionate; like Jeremiah, perplexed by the world, not because he didn’t understand it but because he did. As one of his editors, I came to know him well, but only after he emerged as a writer. For me Colin Duriez fills in the fascinating details of his early years. Yes, this was the man I knew—one who was surprised by God as his influence grew from his pastoring small churches to teaching thousands in auditoriums around the world, from conversations one on one or with a handful of students to intellectual sparring with elite secular scholars and pundits. Duriez knows his subject; Schaeffer, the Jeremiah of the twentieth century, walks and talks again in these pages. James W. Sire
An excellent biography of this influential thinker, mingling personal memories and theological analysis. A must for Schaeffer’s admirers and those wanting to develop his heritage today. Alister E. McGrath
You can read an interview with Mr. Duriez on his new biography of Schaeffer here.
Anyone (like me) who owes a debt of gratitude to the ministry of Francis Schaeffer will want to add this to their summer reading list.