Bibliography of Schaeffer's Published Works,
1968 - 1985
Collection Highlights:
• 1943 - The Fundamentalist
Christian and Anti-Semitism
• 1948 - A Review
of a Review [Schaeffer sets out his apologetic method]
• 1974 - A Step Forward [Schaeffer's observations on the formation of the PCA]
• 1980 - We Don't Have Forever [on the twin
commands to purity and love in the Church]
• 1982 - A Day of Sober Rejoicing [On
the reception of the RPCES into the PCA] - [PDF]
Biographical Sketch:
Francis August Schaeffrer
was born January 30, 1912, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, became a Christian
in 1930 at the age of eighteen, and graduated magna cum laude from Hampden-Sydney
College, VA in June, 1935. He married Edith Seville on July 26, 1935.
They had three daughters and one son, born between 1937 and 1951. Schaeffer
entered Westminster Theological Seminary in 1935 and transferred to
the newly formed Faith Theological Seminary in 1937, graduating from
there in 1938.
Following graduation, he was by some accounts the first person ordained
by the Bible Presbyterian Church and became pastor of the Covenant Presbyterian
Church in Grove City, PA. In 1941 he was elected moderator of the Great
Lakes Presbytery [BPC] and began serving as associate pastor of the
Bible Presbyterian Church in Chester, PA. From 1943 to 1947, he pastored
First Bible Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, MO, and served as moderator
of the Midwest Presbytery [BPC].
During this time Schaeffer and his wife founded the Children for Christ
ministry in St. Louis, which soon became widely adopted by other evangelical
churches. In 1947 he traveled throughout Europe as a representative
of the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions and as the
American Secretary for the Foreign Relations Department of the American
Council of Christian Churches. In 1948 he moved with his family to Lausanne,
Switzerland to begin mission work, and moved the following year to Champery,
Switzerland, where he wrote Basic Bible Studies.
In 1953 he returned to the United States on furlough and began an extensive
speaking tour. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree
in 1954 by Highland College in Long Beach, CA. Later that same year,
he returned to Switzerland and moved to Huemoz, Switzerland. By 1955
he had resigned from the mission board and began L'Abri Fellowship,
which became the primary focus of his life. In 1971 he received the
honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Gordon College, Wenham, MA.
Work began in 1974 on the book and film versions of one of his more
well-known works, How Shall We Then Live?, during which time
he also helped to found the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy.
The film series Whatever Happened to the Human Race? was also
underway by 1977. Dr. Schaeffer was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer in
1978, which made necessary a move of the American headquarters of L'Abri
to Rochester, MN to better allow for the continued conducting of seminars
on both film series while undergoing chemotherapy treatments at the
Mayo Clinic.
In 1981 he reedited and pubished The Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer. The Simon Greenleaf School of Law awarded him an honorary Doctor
of Laws degree in 1983, but he was forced to return in critical condition
from Switzerland to the Mayo Clinic. Despite the debilitating illness,
he was able in 1984 to complete The Great Evangelical Disaster and
a seminar tour. On May 15, 1984, he died at his home in Rochester, MN
and was buried at Oakwood Cemetary in Rochester.
Click here to read the Memorial for
Dr. Schaeffer, from the Minutes of Missouri Presbytery (PCA), July 20,
1984.
Click here to read the Memorial for Dr. Schaeffer from the Minutes of Philadelphia Presbytery (PCA), 15 September 1984.
Box 134—
File —Subject
ƒ01 — Abbott, Rev. Paul R.,
Jr., 1945 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ02 — Allen, Rev. Stanley P.,
1944 - 1945, Correspondence
ƒ03 — American
Council of Christian Churches, n.d., Tract
ƒ04 — Anderson, Rev. Herbert
J., 1944, Correspondence
ƒ05 — Barrow, Robert, 1947,
Correspondence
ƒ06 — Bateman, Irb C., 1946,
Correspondence
ƒ07 — Bible Presbyterian Church,
1938, Form of Government
ƒ08 — Bible Presbyterian Church
of Chester, PA, 1945, Correspondence
ƒ09 — Bible Presbyterian Church
of Gainesville, TX, 1946, Organizational Meeting
ƒ10 — Bible Presbyterian Church
of Greenville, SC, 1944, Ordination Statement
ƒ11 — Bible Presbyterian Church
of Valley Park, MO, 1944 - 1946, Organization
ƒ12 — Bible Presbyterian Church of St. Louis,
MO, 1946, Organization
ƒ13 — Biographical Articles, 1984 - 1985
ƒ14 — Blackie, Rev. Donald K., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ15 — Brown, Rev. G.A., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ16 — Buswell, Dr. J. Oliver, Jr., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ17 — Collins, Win, 1947, Correspondence
ƒ18 — Covenant Bible Presbyterian Church of
Grove City, PA, 1943, Bulletin
ƒ19 — Cox, Rev. Robert H., 1945 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ20 — Cross, Rev. Thomas G., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ21 — Cunningham, Rev. Thomas D., 1944 - 1945,
Correspondence
ƒ22 — Dieffenbacher, Junia, 1946, Correspondence
ƒ23 — Drescher, Wesley, 1946, Correspondence
ƒ24 — Edmunson, Rev. V.R., 1946 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ25 — Ellis, James W., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ26 — Enlow, Rev. F. Baird, 1945 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ27 — Farquhar, Supplee Ellwood, Jr., 1946,
Correspondence
ƒ28 — Fawcett, Rev. Franklin, 1944, Correspondence
ƒ29 — Federal Communications Committee, 1945,
Correspondence
ƒ30 — First Bible Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis,
IN, 1945, Doctrinal Statement
ƒ31 — First Bible Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis,
IN, n.d., Tract
ƒ32 — Harris, Rev. R. Laird, 1943 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ33 — Hastings, Rev. Robert, 1944 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ34 — Henry, Hayes, 1946, Correspondence
ƒ35 — Hofmann, Rev. E.L., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ36 — Holdcroft, Rev. Gordon J., 1945 - 1946,
Correspondence
ƒ37 — Iaggi, H.H., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ38 — Irving, Rev. William, 1944 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ39 — Jones, Rev. Clyde L., Correspondence,
1946
ƒ40 — Kerr, Maxwell A., 1944 - 1945, Correspondence
ƒ41 — Killen, Rev. Allan R., 1943 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ42 — Knauss, Elizabeth, 1945 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ43 — Kutz, Rev. Robert, 1944 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ44 — Lenk, Rev. Frederick J., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ45 — MacRae, Dr. Allan A., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ46 — Mayle, Rev. Warren W., 1945 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ47 — McIntire, Rev. Carl, 1946, Correspondence
ƒ48 — Meadows, Wilfred J., 1946 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ49 — Meyers, Rev. David K., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ50 — Miller, Rev. Ira, 1944 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ51 — Miscellaneous Notes, 1945
ƒ52 — Moffitt, J.R., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ53 — Murray, Rev. Jack, 1944 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ54 — New Modernism and the Bible, The,
1950, [published address]
ƒ55 — Olney, Rev. G.W., 1944 - 1945, Correspondence
ƒ56 — Pearson, Rev. M.A., 1945 -1946, Correspondence
ƒ57 — Pont, Rev. Charles E., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ58 — Presbytery of the Midwest (BPC), 1944
- 1946, Correspondence
ƒ59 — Rayburn, Rev. Robert G., 1946 - 1947,
Correspondence
ƒ60 — Reeder, Warren A., Jr., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ61 — Richter, Rev. Charles E., 1946 - 1947,
Correspondence
ƒ62 — Roll, Rev. P.E., 1945, Correspondence
ƒ63 — Roper, Ed, 1946, Correspondence
ƒ64 — Rose, R.S., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ65 — Rural Bible Crusade, 1944 - 1945, Report
ƒ66 — Saye, Rev. Samuel W., 1944 - 1945, Correspondence
ƒ67 — Stam, Peter, Jr., 1943 - 1944, Correspondence
ƒ68 — Stam, Peter, Jr., 1945, Correspondence
ƒ69 — Stam, Peter, Jr., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ70 — Stam, Peter, Jr., 1947, Correspondence
ƒ71 — Stickle, Rev. Harry F., 1946, Correspondence
ƒ72 — Stigers, Rev. Harold, 1947, Correspondence
ƒ73 — Stitt, Dr. David L., 1944, Correspondence
ƒ74 — Van Tassel, Beltram, 1946 - 1947, Correspondence
ƒ75 — Wall, Rev. Peter F., 1944 - 1945, Correspondence
ƒ76 — Wortman, Chap. V.V., 1945 - 1946, Correspondence
ƒ77 — Young, Rev. G. Douglas, 1946, Correspondence
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