This week, historian and teacher Jonathan Wilson returns to the show to discuss Francis Schaeffer's influential documentary series How Should We Then Live? Long before the Benedict Option, Schaeffer offered Christians a grand narrative of societal decline and put forth a call for "Bible Believing" Christians to rescue society from decadence. In 2021, Dr. Wilson wrote a series of blog posts about the series, exploring its historical method and paranoid worldview. He joins us today to explain.

Links:

How Should We Then Live Bluebook Life series by Jonathan Wilson

How Should We Then Live? on YouTube https://labri.org/resources/how-should-we-then-live-series/

Sarah Edwards, "Sharing the Bad News: Regretting Francis Schaeffer's 'How Should We Then Live,' Forty Years On" https://thebaffler.com/latest/should-live-schaeffer-edwards

Barry Hankins, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6389/francis-schaeffer-and-the-shaping-of-evangelical-america.aspx

Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/frank-schaeffer/crazy-for-god/9780306817502/

Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri (New Expanded Edition) https://www.crossway.org/books/labri-tpb/

L'Abri Fellowship International as it exists today https://labri.org/

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