How shall we then live? Dr. Francis Schaeffer Series

[Synopsis]

Recently, I recalled an episode from the Dr. Francis Schaeffer Series, "How shall we then live?" and decided to take a refresh and watch the ten episodes. Although these Dr. Francis Schaeffer productions were published nominally 45 years ago, I was amazed at how accurate these productions were for the times and a prediction of our current state of affairs of diverse thinking and practice.

 

For example, here is a clip regarding the manipulative media elite:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jianKzB753M

 

Looks like then, as now, the communist and socialist agenda is laid out while not focusing on a particular dictator. Many be cause for ponderance for implications of who exactly the elites are that may or not be the figures in view today who are forwarding any one of many specific dimensional agendas.

 

 

I'll post links to the ten episode below. May be somewhat dry for most while I think well worth the watch of each half hour episode as a perspective on the way things were and the implications for today.

[Synopsis]

This is Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective. This special edition includes an intimate in-depth interview with Francis and Edith Schaeffer, which is available only in this package. This program presents profound truths in simple language and concludes that man's only hope is a return to God's Biblical absolute — the Truth revealed in Christ through the Scriptures. Each episode focuses on a significant era of history while presenting answers to modern problems. Twelve 30-minute sessions.

 

The Roman Age

The Middle Ages

The Renaissance

The Reformation

The Revolutionary Age

The Scientific Age

The Age of Non-reason

The Age of Fragmentation

The Age of Personal Peace & Affluence

Final Choices

 

I am not sure why the introduction notes twelve sessions since only ten are listed and the Reclaiming the World: A Conversations with Francis and Edith Schaeffer session was not listed.

 

Episode 1 – The Roman Age

 

Join Dr. Francis Schaeffer in an in-depth study of the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective. In episode 1: The Roman Age, Dr. Schaeffer studies ancient Rome and the problem of finite gods as the basis of society.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QeOrzGbLkU

 

Episode 2 – The Middle Ages

 

Join Dr. Schaeffer in the continuation of the series with episode 2: The Middle Ages. Here we look at the social, political, and intellectual uncertainty of a Post-Roman world, the influence of Christianity, and the consequence of the Church's deviation from early teachings and ensuing theological distortions.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgtaKXX5OL4

 

Episode 3 - The Renaissance

 

Dr. Schaeffer looks at the problem with humanism's logical outworkings in episode 3: The Renaissance.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV0r5MC99FI

 

Episode 4 - The Reformation

 

Episode 4: The Reformation studies the reaction against medieval religious distortions of the biblical and early Christian Church's teaching. Dr. Schaeffer hosts.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Wy4-ootA4

 

Episode 5 - The Revolutionary Age

 

Join Dr. Schaeffer in Episode 5: The Revolutionary age as he compares politics fromed on a Christian foundation to those divorced from Christianity.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnNjREISdU

 

Episode 6 - The Scientific Age

 

Dr. Schaeffer reviews the biblical influence on science and and the shift in modernity in Episode 6: The Scientific Age.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR445v8_27M

 

Episode 7 - The Age of Non-Reason

 

Dr. Schaeffer hosts and looks at shifts in modern philosophy, the influence of existentialism and the popularization of nonrational experiences in Episode 7: The Age of Non-Reason.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4frPJFimabY

 

Episode 8 - The Age of Fragmentation

Join Dr. Schaeffer in Episode 8: The Age of Fragmentation as he reviews how art, music, and culture depict a philosophical assent of inconsistency, confusion, and absurdity.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOpL_KcorYU

 

Episode 9 - The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence

Join Dr. Schaeffer as he looks at the consequences of materialistic and hedonistic living in Episode 9: The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvfg9kPXwq8

 

Episode 10 – Final Choices

 

Dr. Schaeffer speculates on what comes next as a result of our society's philosophies in Episode 10: Final Choices.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6TG_K39KoU

 

 

Reclaiming the World: A Conversations with Francis and Edith Schaeffer

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVGM2vA1lU