ABSTRACT
Some may wonder whether Francis Schaeffer (1912-84) should be included in a book on Kierkegaard reception among modern theologians. For one, it is questionable whether Schaeffer counts as a major theologian; he was an evangelist who intellectually engaged in cultural and world-view analysis. The extent of Schaeffer’s formal education was a degree through Westminster and Faith seminaries in Pennsylvania, founded as conservative alternatives to Princeton and charged with the task of perpetuating the “Princeton theology” of Charles Hodge and B.B. Warfield. Schaeffer’s philosophical and theological analyses of modern culture were largely formulated in the subsequent context of his mission work at L’Abri, a communal retreat and study center he later instituted in Lausanne, Switzerland.
