Francis A. Schaeffer on Blind Faith
The God Who Is There, (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1968), p80.
"I do not ask for answers, I just believe." This sounds spiritual, and
it deceives many fine people. These are often young men and women who
are not content only to repeat the phrases of the intellectual or
spiritual status quo. They have become rightly dissatisfied with a
dull, dusty, introverted orthodoxy given only to pounding out the
well-known clichés. The new theology sound spiritual and vibrant,
and they are trapped. But the price they pay for what seems to be
spiritual is high, for to operate in the upper story using undefined
religious terms is to fail to know and function on the level of the
whole man. The answer is not to ask these people to return to the
poorness of the status quo, but to a living orthodoxy which is
concerned with the whole man, including the rational and the
intellectual, in his relationship to God.
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