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An Interview with Os Guinness on the 25th Anniversary of Francis Schaeffer's Death

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Next week (May 15) will be the 25th anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer, who died in his home in Rochester, MN, at the age of 72. Two biographies of Schaeffer have been published relatively recently: Colin Duriez’s Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life and Barry Hankins’s Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of American Evangelicalism. I was recently able to ask Os Guinness a few questions about Schaeffer’s impact and significance. How did you first meet Schaeffer? I first met Francis Schaeffer in 1965 when I was a student in London. I had come to faith in Jesus through a Christian friend and through reading such writers as Dostoevsky, G.K. Chesterton, and C.S. Lewis. But it would be fair to say that while we had extraordinary biblical exposition and deep, rich theological teaching in England, there was almost no encouragement to think Christianly or to understand what was going on in the wider culture. So there I was as a student in the middle of ‘swinging London’ and the explod

Next week (May 15) will be the 25th anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer, who died in his home in Rochester, MN, at the age of 72. Two biographies of Schaeffer have been published relatively recently: Colin Duriez’s Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life and Barry Hankins’s Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of American Evangelicalism . Advertise on TGC I was recently able to ask Os Guinness a few questions about Schaeffer’s impact and significance. How did you first meet Schaeffer? I first met Francis Schaeffer in 1965 when I was a student in London. I had come to fait

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