How Should We Then Live: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture Audiobook

" I probably came to this book too late in life for it to have had the profound effect on me that I've heard so many others claim. I'm grateful mostly for the survey of the history of Western culture. I will plan to read it again at some time and am confident that I'll see much that eluded me the first time around. "

" Helpful to read alongside the video series. "

" One of my all Ike favorites!!! Schaefer was decades ahead of the intellectual! "

" Remarkable insight from a remarkable book. Schaeffer is not content with analyzing the current state of things; he wants to trace the development of it, starting with Rome, through the Renaissance, and through the rise and fall of modernism. A classic of presuppositional apologetics. "

" While this is a well-researched, fact-based historical chronology of how western civilization has progressed -- and where it has taken some detours -- over the past 2,000 years, it is challenging to read. Some of the esoteric discussion seems geared toward academics. Certainly, none of it is written for the casual reader. If you don't have a love of philosophy and/or history, spend your time reading something else. "

" I disagree with his views on "modern" jazz and rock music. Other than that, FAS is my homie. "

" One of remarkable books, beautiful, clearly and spirituality. I really enjoy reading Francis A. Schaeffer's book. "

" Great book! I recommend it highly. Written in the '70s Schaeffer is extremely prophetic in the last few chapters about our current day. "

" How can I give this anything other than five stars? It is perhaps one of the most important books of the past 50 years, and is essential for anyone seeking to understand why society is the way it is and the feelings of isolation experienced by modern man. "

" Even when I was 19, I gathered that this book was pretty crap. "

" This is truly a great book. It has to go on my favorites list. "

" Really good, although Schaeffer should've been bolder in presenting Christian historical optimism. "

" easily one of the most profound, important and lifechanging books I have ever read in my entire life. "

" Ahead of his time. "

" This book made me think. I gave me tools to analyze humanism. Schaeffer has ability to take complex ideas, and reduce them to some basic questions. He also was able to see in 1976 what some of the applications of the philosophical ideas would be. "

" Parts of this were really heavy, mainly because it was about art in culture -- which didn't interest me. The parts that veered into history and philosophy were very interesting, but I need to read parts of it again. "

" I read this in college and really liked it then, so I wanted to reread it now that I'm older. I didn't realize that it was basically a history book, and I love history, so I'm really liking this reread of a classic. "

" The culture war from a biblical perspective. Only the idiosyncratic Schaeffer who lived his life in urban America and rural Switzerland could write so expressively yet clearly. Doesn't the confession of faith in Christ demand a vocal engagement with culture by God's people? A must read. "

" This book helped answer that question for me. Changed me. Thanks, Frankie! "

" read back in the late 1970s - early 80s. Need to dig it out and re-read. "

" This book re-evaluated a large portion of my thinking and worldview. Schaeffer is my top apologist. "

" Even when I was 19, I gathered that this book was pretty crap. "

" A must read! I love Shaeffer's way of clarifying history's events and how it all points to the existence of a God who not only created us, but loves us today and always. "

" Loved it. Brought so much sense to my faith and offered me challenges in living my life in a more God-centered way "

" Originally published in 1976. Subtitle: The rise and decline of Western thought and culture. If you aren't motivated to read the whole book, at least read the last 3 chapters. Its predictions for the state of our culture--made 30 years ago--are proving to be eerily accurate. "

" Excellent introduction to a Christian worldview. A broad foundation for one's perspective of history, polictics, art etc. Francis Schaeffer is a brilliant christian philosopher who offers amazing insight in this book. Easy enough to read for the novice yet deeply profound. "

" Superb if you want to undersatnd the development of western thought as it manifests itself in art and culture generally. "

" It's the history of Western civilization that nobody teaches anymore. I'm grateful for that, but I certainly needed to remind myself of the gospel for some hope after I finished it. Our culture is in a depressing place. "

" Definitive book on "the Rise and Decline of Western Thought" "