How Should We Then Live
The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture
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How Should We Then Live? has become the benchmark for Christian worldview thinking today. This edition commemorates the 50th anniversary of L'Abri Fellowship, founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer.
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This engaging and accessible book invites the listener to explore the questions and arguments of philosophy through the work of 100 of the greatest thinkers within the Western intellectual tradition - covering philosophical, scientific, political, and religious thought over a period of 2500 years.
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Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Alexis de Tocqueville, inform our political consciousness or discussing how beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson's peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display.
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Unpersuasive and a bit repetitive
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Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? Not only the erudite Thomas Jefferson, the wily and elusive Ben Franklin, and the underappreciated Thomas Paine, but also Ethan Allen, the hero of the Green Mountain Boys, and Thomas Young, the forgotten Founder who kicked off the Boston Tea Party. These radicals who founded America set their sights on a revolution of the mind. Derided as "infidels" and "atheists" in their own time, they wanted to liberate us not just from one king but from the tyranny of supernatural religion.
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Excellent exploration of this subject
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One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world. Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were conceived and developed during the Enlightenment, and which changed forever the intellectual landscape of the Western world.
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A thorough political tract rather than history
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In The Dream of Enlightenment, Anthony Gottlieb expertly navigates a second great explosion of thought, taking us to northern Europe in the wake of its wars of religion and the rise of Galilean science. In a relatively short period - from the early 1640s to the eve of the French Revolution - Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume all made their mark. The Dream of Enlightenment tells their story and that of the birth of modern philosophy.
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Enlightenment meets Neuroscience
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- Bob Johnson
- 07-07-12
Schaeffer's classic confronts and challenges
Where does How Should We Then Live rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It is the only audiobook I've listened to in its entirety.
What did you like best about this story?
I enjoyed reviewing several well-known aspect of world history, and learning of many other unfamiliar ones, woven together in a coherent worldview.
What aspect of Kate Reading’s performance would you have changed?
I don't disapprove of her performance at all... this was my first audiobook and it was a bit of a challenge to engage the male author while hearing his words in a female voice. I'm not sure I ever made the connection completely.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Schaeffer's indictment of Christians who have held to thoroughly orthodox views in most areas while ignoring Scriptural teaching on race and compassionate use of wealth.
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- Cushman family
- 07-10-21
Great overview of the history of thought.
This book really challenge my perception of the world that we live in. It forces you to look at the way we think through the eyes of those who came before us. And especially how the way we think lines up with Jesus.
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- BD
- 01-05-22
A Prophetic Warning for All of Us
Dr. Shaeffer has artfully traced the contrary motion of decline of culture and civilization the human race regards as 'advances', this unstoppable march into Revelation's prophecies and God's final judgement.
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- Judy
- 01-03-22
Excellent listen. So relevant for our time!
It's amazing how Francis Shaeffer is more relevant as history progresses!
We should all listen and take heed.
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- Stephen
- 12-21-22
Outstanding Appraisal of The Flow of Civilization
Schaeffer is a most outstanding historian, philosopher, and theologian. He has a valuated the whole flow of thought in western civilization up to our present day, and knows how to give people the very best advice about what should we do about all of the challenges before us.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-30-22
All-round great
Kate Reading is fantastic as always. Great book- very timely message. Thankful for Francis, Kate and Audible!
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- Tim Arndt
- 02-08-15
Timeless masterpiece of cultural analysis
What did you love best about How Should We Then Live?
Schaeffer clearly reveals the impact of worldview on culture and history. Ideas have consequences. It makes me wonder. Where is our thoughts leading us today?
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- Hot momma
- 04-08-22
Summary of How should we then live?
I goes deep from the Roman Age to the Age of the 1970. Special Note: this book is slowly and some of the picture of nude statue and this book was written and published in the 1970's so if some of the words are out of date that is the reason.
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- Martie
- 10-08-19
Incredible!
An incredible account of the history of man, and where do we go from here.
Francis Schaeffer’s efforts in writing this book is phenomenal! A must read for all mankind!
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- Ellen Gilmartin
- 11-28-20
Don’t agree with all of it but very thought provoking
This book, written in the 1970’s, was a fascinating flashback to the days before white evangelical Christians were co-opted by the extreme right. Schaeffer presents some excellent points that, taken together, should help correct the current denigration of Christianity into Trumpism. Although, who knows, maybe a Trump lover would think the warning against authoritarianism is a call to arms to stand behind Trump. Strange happenings in the US these days.... Listen and draw your own conclusions.
An additional comment: Schaeffer writes about the ravings of a few elitists who try to argue that people are just complex machines. He seems to think that this has the possibility of causing massive changes in the way ordinary people think. I doubt it. People are way too human to fall for that. They are falling in love, trying to keep their families cohesive, and experiencing all manner of feelings that contradict any such nonsense. On the other hand, his premise that people are most motivated to protect their own personal peace and prosperity is spot on.
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