Escape from Reason

Escape From Reason is a philosophical work written by American theologian and Christian apologist Francis A. Schaeffer, London: InterVarsity Press, first published in 1968. It is Book Two in Volume One of The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer A Christian Worldview. Westchester, IL:Crossway Books, 1982. This is the second book of Francis Schaeffer's "Trilogy." It was written and published after The God Who Is There was written but released before that first book.

Overview

Unlike the first, The God Who Is There, London: Hodder and Stoughton July 1968, and third works in Schaeffer's "Trilogy", Escape from Reason is only loosely divided into seven chapters. Instead, each chapter contains a number of small sections, which offer a much clearer division of the prose. There are 39 such sections in all.

Table of Contents

• Foreword

Chapter one

• Nature and grace
• Aquinas and the autonomous
• Painters and writers
• Nature versus grace
• Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael

Chapter two

• A unity of nature and grace
• The Reformation and man
• More about man
• Reformation, Renaissance and morals
• The whole man

Chapter three

• Early modern science
• Kant and Rousseau
• Modern modern science
• Modern modern morality
• Hegel
• Kierkegaard and the Line of Despair

Chapter four

• The leap
• Secular existentialism
• Religious existentialism
• The New Theology
• Upper storey experiences
• Linguistic analysis and the leap

Chapter five

• Art as the upper storey leap
• Poetry: the later Heidegger
• Art: André Malraux
• Picasso
• Bernstein
• Pornography
• The Theatre of the Absurd

Chapter six

• Madness
• The 'upstairs' in film and television
• Upper storey mysticism
• Jesus the undefined banner

Chapter seven

• Rationality and faith
• The Bible can stand on its own
• Beginning from myself and yet . . .
• The source of the knowledge we need
• The 'leap in the dark' mentality
• The unchanging in a changing world

References

• Richard H. Bube. (Review) Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation. Vol 21, June 1969, pp. 54-55
• Alan F. Johnson. (Review) Moody Monthly, Vol 69, June 1969, pp. 96-98.
• P. Lakey. (Review) Gordon Review, Vol 11, Summer 1969, p. 241-245

External links

• Todd Kappelman, "The Need to Read Francis Schaeffer" An overview of Schaeffer's Trilogy from Probe Ministries. Retrieved 25 September 2006.