Bad News for Modern Man

by Frank Schaeffer

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen books. Frank is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director of four low budget Hollywood features Frank has described as “pretty terrible.” He is also an acclaimed author of both fiction and nonfiction and an artist with a loyal following of international collectors who own many of his oil paintings. Frank has been a frequent guest on the Rachel Maddow Show on NBC, has appeared on Oprah, been interviewed by Terri Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on the Today Show, BBC News and many other media outlets. He is a much sought after speaker and has lectured at a wide range of venues from Harvard’s Kennedy School to the Hammer Museum/UCLA, Princeton University, Riverside Church Cathedral, DePaul University and the Kansas City Public Library.

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is packed with contemporary lessons for evangelicals. Too many here are thinking he lost his faith. Wrong, the right author, Francis August Schaeffer is not "Franky" or "Frank Schaeffer" who is his son. His son did abandon the faith and openly claims he is an agnostic. The FATHER authored these books. The younger Mr. Schaeffer is the author of "Sex, Mom & God." You can read his biography elsewhere. This is a blatant misrepresentation to say the father left the faith. He was faithful in the Lord his entire life.

Francis A Schaeffer is a great author! The title is off a modern-day version of the bible "Good News for Modern Man. This is a book about the disastrous impact of those who abandon the faith: Christian colleges, evangelical publishers, and Christian scholars conforming to cultural norms and distorting the gospel. This is a very intellectual book, it appeals to the reader on multiple levels and distinguishes between humanism and biblical truth.

[Asher Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Frank was an evangelical then. He's moved on. But this remains a superb book about how evangelicalism has so often approached art, in the worst possible ways. Frank made a major motion picture as an evangelical to defy this attitude.

[Rick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually a rather good read. Too bad he has pretty much abandoned the faith.

[Douglas Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

On the plus side of good, written before he went around the bend.