Francis Schaeffer is well known for his commentary of Art, Culture, and Philosophy. What he may be less known for is his support of civil disobedience in his book a Christian Manifesto. As Schaeffer stands as an important figure to most evangelicals, his teachings of the idolatry of the State in the Church was largely ignored and sadly carried out with much fervor decades after he died.
“If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been put in the place of the living God, because then you are to obey it even when it tells you in its own way at that time to worship Ceasar.”
“It is time we consciously realize that when any office commands what is contrary to God’s Law it abrogates its authority.”
Excerpts from A Christian Manifesto
In 1982, Dr. Schaeffer spoke at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This clip contains parts from A Christian Manifesto
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As a Christian, I learned as a child that Jesus asked us to love each other’s as well as love our enemies. Essentially that part about love the people who hate us made this Christianity different from any other religion. Later on, I started to read the “bible”. And found that it included barbaric and crazy stuff in the Old Testament. Of course any Christian can point out to hundreds of situations, but, what I am here to raise the question regarding why Christianity does not drop the other crazy books, and focus ONLY on the New Testament.
That’s an interesting question. However, I think you would first need to answer, “Can we drop the Old Testament, when nearly every book within it is referenced by Christ and His disciples?”
Those “crazy books”, and even the “crazy parts”, are as much apart of the New Testament as the Old. Jesus confirms them as God’s Word and history. The disciples recorded that, and confirmed it as well. It then becomes a point of understanding the big picture of the Old and New Testament as a whole, and not seeing them as two separate contradictory stories. That is something I would be happy to do here, or continue through info@anarchochristian.com
Heard about this website on Tom Woods’s show. Glad I did.
I remember this book when it came out (I bought it). Those were heavy times. I think Ronald Reagan wrote the Introduction to the copy that I still have.
There were great writers associated with Schaeffer at the time, most notably, John Whitehead, who is still doing great work (see his stuff at Lew Rockwell’s site as well as his excellent books). Right now I am looking at two books he wrote in the mid-80s: The Second American Revolution, and The Stealing of America. Whitehead worked a lot with Francis’s son, Frank Schaeffer (who has since renounced his entire family and the work he did for them and has instead chosen to dive off the deep-end into some weird religious leftism).
Despite the obvious inconsistencies, that was a time when the ideas of liberty flourished in ways I had not seen before in my life (I was born in 1960). And I am thankful that many of the writers back then continue to do well.