Barry Hankins is professor of history at Baylor University.His other books include The Second Great Awakening andthe Transcendentalists and American Evangelicals: A Recent History of a Mainstream Religious Movement.
Christianity Today
"A skillful biography written with both fondness and a keen eye
that discerns the underlying consistency of Schaeffer's outlook.
(Five Stars). " David Bebbington
-- University of Stirling
"In a book of thorough research and sympathetic analysis, Barry
Hankins shows how Francis Schaeffer was more responsible than any
other individual for turning American evangelicalism from
introspection to looking outward, from suspicion of the intellect
to engagement with culture." William Edgar
-- Westminster Theological Seminary"Amid the growing literature on
Francis Schaeffer's legacy, this book by historian Barry Hankins
offers a fresh look at the man and his times. While covering a wide
range of issues, Hankins is particularly concerned to understand
Schaeffer's relation to American fundamentalism. Brilliant,
fascinating, provocative, critical, the volume will leave no reader
indifferent. I recommend it highly as an important contribution to
understanding these defining years in American religious history."
Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
-- author of A School of the Church
"Significant lives are rarely straightforward or simple, a fact
fully documented by Barry Hankins's absorbing account of Francis
Schaeffer's steady transformation from working-class schoolboy and
fundamentalist warrior to internationally famous evangelical author
and lecturer, the founder of L'Abri, and an incalculable influence
over a generation of young Christians trying to make sense of the
1960s. Schaeffer's books and films -- as well as that famous beard
and Swiss knickers -- are an essential piece of
late-twentieth-century American evangelicalism and its complex
passage into a movement out to wage war against the forces of
secularism. Hankins's deft treatment of Schaeffer's life is a
must-read for anyone interested in probing the human stories
beneath the popular stereotypes." Journal of American History
"With other biographies of the late Francis Schaeffer functioning
more as hagiographies, the historian Barry Hankins skillfully
places the life and work of this extraordinarily complex figure in
the historical and cultural contexts in which he lived. . . an
excellent work on a very complex, important figure."
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