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Death in the City

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Death in the City
AuthorFrancis A. Schaeffer
LanguageEnglish
GenreReligion
PublisherInterVarsity Press
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUnited States

Death in the City is an apologetic work by American theologian Francis A. Schaeffer, Chicago: InterVarsity Press, first published in 1969. It is Book Four in Volume Four of The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian Worldview. Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1982.

Overview

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This work was written by Schaeffer as an answer to the question:

In what has been called a post-Christian world, what should be our perspective and how should we function as individuals, as institutions, as orthodox Christians, and as those who claim to be Bible-believing? (p. 209)

The basic answer, given by Schaeffer in Chapter One, is that "the church in our generation needs reformation, revival, and constructive revolution." (p. 209)

Table of contents

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  • Chapter 1: Death in the City
  • Chapter 2: The Loneliness of Man
  • Chapter 3: The Message of Judgement
  • Chapter 4: An Echo of the World
  • Chapter 5: The Persistence of Compassion
  • Chapter 6: The Significance of Man
  • Chapter 7: The Man Without the Bible
  • Chapter 8: The Justice of God
  • Chapter 9: The Universe and Two Chairs [1]

Notes

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  1. ^ Schaeffer, Francis, "Chapter 9: The Universe and Two Chairs," in Death in the City, Reprinted at Nehemiah's Prayer Watch. Accessed August 22, 2006.