Ranald macaulay biography

In such a context, what Schaeffer found he could do, always with great sympathy and gentleness but penetratingly because of his acute intellectual gifts, was to apply these theological convictions to the “pulling down of strongholds” (2 Cor.

). He relentlessly exposed the inadequacies of all non-biblical thinking and tried to lead men and women to Christ.

Ranald macaulay biography

Hence the only authentic description he ever used of himself -– not “philosopher” or “theologian” or “intellectual,” etc. -- but simply “evangelist”!

This was already strikingly different from the run-of-the-mill evangelicalism then current.

But what made it truly outstanding was the fact that Schaeffer carried on this ministry within the context of a highly personal and non-exploitative environment -- the existence of L’Abri, a French word meaning “The Shelter.” At great personal cost to himself and his wife, and needless to say therefore to his