The year 1976, the very year that many Americans came to know that evangelicals even existed, continues to reverberate throughout evangelical Christianity. The towering giants of the evangelical world at that time seemed to see our world in increasingly hopeful terms. The urgent cultural crises of the 1960s appeared to be in recession.
As we now know, it was not really so. In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion on demand nationwide. Larger intellectual currents were setting the stage for a massive shift in the culture. Evangelicals were wearing “I Found It” buttons and building massive megachurches, but the culture was shifting toward a hostile secularism that would not be fully apparent for a generation.
Still, some saw it coming. I turned 17 years old in 1976, facing my last year of high school and trying to figure out the world around me. An apologetic crisis had troubled me for a couple of years by then, and I needed help. I was already facing some of the issues and questions that would explode onto the American scene in coming decades.
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This lecture by Christian philosopher and apologist Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984) is a plea to retain a strong hold on the reliability and authority of the Bible in a time when relativism of truth has become the intellectual norm.
A Christian Manifesto
Dr. Francis Schaeffer came to the historic Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale and stood in Dr. Kennedy’s pulpit to deliver an electrifying message called “A Christian Manifesto.” This message was delivered by the late Dr. Schaeffer in 1982, when he was struggling with the cancer that ultimately ended his life in 1984.