He Is There and He Is Not Silent

“When our world falls apart and we must go back down to the very foundations to rebuild, we do not need slapdash, glib formulas. We need something solid, real, and honest. That is what Francis Schaeffer brilliantly offers us in He Is There and He Is Not Silent. The living God has drawn near to us and made himself known to us. If we rebuild our broken lives with his wisdom, we will have something compelling to say to our generation.”

“I read He Is There and He Is Not Silent in 1976 and professed faith in Christ six months later. This was not a coincidence: Francis Schaeffer’s brilliant book helped to change my life when I was twenty-six. This new edition, I pray, will help to change many more lives. I needed to learn, as Schaeffer says, that God exists and speaks, that we all see with presuppositional glasses, that modern explanations of how everything began ‘are usually semantic mysticisms,’ and that man is abnormal but not hopeless. Young and old people today need to learn that too.”

“In retrospect, we can now see clearly that Francis Schaeffer was one of the most original thinkers and that He Is There and He Is Not Silent was one of the most essential works of the late twentieth century. It helped to provide the intellectual tools evangelicals needed to recover a Christian worldview in an increasingly postmodern culture. If you want to understand how the personal God revealed in Jesus Christ helps us make sense of our world, you need to read this book.”