“Francis Schaeffer: A Retrospective on His Life & Legacy” (CentrePointe Publishing, 2022) is an overview of the life and works of one of the most significant and influential Christian thinkers of the 20th century.
      Contemporary America lacks strong and wise prophetic voices amid all the spiritual and moral chaos and confusion in our nation and the world. We desperately need leaders who understand and apply a comprehensive biblical worldview to every area of life, and who have the courage to address the great challenges and controversies of our time.
      If you are concerned about the state of American evangelical Christianity and the condition of our nation in general, read this book. The issues that Francis Schaeffer addressed in his writings and ministry are even more relevant today than when he wrote and lectured more than 40 years ago.

An excerpt from Francis Schaeffer: A Retrospective on His Life & Legacy, “To live faithfully and effectively for Christ in contemporary ‘post-Christian’ America, students and adults alike are well-advised to read, absorb and interact with the thought, the insights, and the challenges they will encounter in the writings of two modern sages: C. S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer.”

• James Sire: “Francis Schaeffer was the Jeremiah of the 20th Century.”
• Billy Graham: “[Schaeffer] was truly one of the great evangelical statesmen of our generation…. More than virtually any other thinker, he had keen insight into the major theological and philosophical battles of our time.”
•  J. I. Packer: “Francis Schaeffer was a modern-day prophet-pastor…. He was an amazing man – intellectually brilliant and set on truth, emotionally intense, devoted to God and compassionate; like Jeremiah, perplexed by the world, not because he didn’t understand it but because he did.”
• Os Guinness: “I have never met anyone with such a passion for God, combined with a passion for people, combined with a passion for truth…. Francis Schaefer was quite simply the most brilliant and compassionate face-to-face apologist I have ever met.”
• Donald Williams: “Francis Schaeffer has never been replaced by another voice of equal stature.”

Jefrey D. Breshears, Ph.D., is a former university history professor and the president of The Areopagus, a Christian education ministry in Atlanta, Georgia that sponsors seminars and forums on topics related to Christian apologetics, history, science, literature and the arts, and contemporary culture. He is also the author of several books, including:

• Introduction To Bibliology: What Every Christian Should Know About the Origins, Composition, Interpretation, Canonization, and Transmission of the Bible (2017)
• The Case for Christian Apologetics: Defending the Truth of the Christian Faith in a Post-Christian and Skeptical Culture (2016, 2021)
• American Crisis: Cultural Marxism and the Culture War — A Christian Response (2020)
• C. S. Lewis on Politics, Government, and the Good Society (2020)
• Francis Schaeffer: A Retrospective on His Life & Legacy (2022)

Eric A. Smith holds degrees in Physics from Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt, and has taught Physics and Astrophysics at Southern Polytechnic State University, Kennesaw State University, and Georgia Military College. As a scholar with wide-ranging interests, he has lectured in Areopagus Forums and Reasons To Believe seminars on topics as diverse as the Anthropic Principle and the fine-tuning of the universe to the music and legacy of The Beatles.