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Aug 29, 2019

THE GREATEST ART:

"Even for the great artist, the most crucial work of art is his life."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Sep 16, 2018

A REAL POVERTY:

"Some years ago when I started to work out a Christian concept of culture, many people considered what I was doing suspect. They felt that because I was interested in intellectual answers, I must not be biblical. But this attitude represents a real poverty. It fails to understand that if Christianity is really true, then it involves the whole man, including his intellect and creativeness. Christianity is not just 'dogmatically' true or 'doctrinally' true. Rather, it is true to what is there, true in the whole area of the whole man in all of life."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Sep 15, 2018

THE MAN, THE ARTIST:

"..it is the 'mannishness' of man that creates [,created by God]. The artist as a man does not disappear, leaving the muse alone to speak."

~ Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Sep 13, 2018

THE MOST CRUCIAL ART:

"...there is a very real sense in which the Christian life itself should be our greatest work of art. Even for the great artist, the most crucial work of art is his life."

~ Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Sep 12, 2018

THE VALUE OF ART:

"As a Christian we know why a work of art has value. Why? First, because a work of art is a work of creativity, and creativity has value because God is the Creator."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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May 22, 2018

SCHAEFFER ON THE FOUNDERS:

"If one were to ask whether Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson personally were Christians, the answer, as best we can judge from what they have said, is no. Nonetheless, they produced something that had some sort of Christian framework because they were producing it out of the Christian consensus of Samuel Rutherford's Lex Rex. Thus, from a Christian framework Jefferson and Franklin were able to write that men have certain inalienable rights, a notion derived from a specifically Christian world-view."

~ Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible, Editor's note: Schaeffer mentions in passing as a side note on how consensus may romantically reflect truth (in government or art), even without a sufficient base.

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Apr 29, 2018

CREATION AND NON-RELIGIOUS ART:

"God's creation--the mountains, the trees, the birds and the bird's songs--are also nonreligious art. Think about that. If God made the flowers, they are worth painting and writing about. If God made the birds, they are worth painting. If God made the sky, the sky is worth painting. If God made the ocean, indeed it's worth writing poetry about. It is worth man's while to create works upon the basis of the great works God has already created."

~ Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Apr 26, 2018

JUDGING ART:

What kind of judgment does one apply, ...to a work of art? I believe that there are four basic standards: (1) technical excellence; (2) validity; (3) intellectual content, the world-view which comes through; and (4) the integration of content and vehicle."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Apr 20, 2018

MILLIONS ON EXPRESSIONS:

"I am convinced that one of the reasons men spend millions in making art museums is not just so that there will be something 'aesthetic,' but because the art works in them are an expression of the mannishness of man himself."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible ~ Editor's note: In Schaeffer's thought, the "mannishness of man" idiom highlights the uniqueness of man and has Apologetic worth. When man shows forth that he is greater than just an animal or machine, he testifies to the fact that God is there and furthermore that He has created man in His own image with purpose, value and beauty. This is a far cry from deterministic evolution where man is merely an "accidental animal," a product of chance, governed by survival instincts and passions without defined purpose or direction.

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Oct 21, 2017

THE ART OF LIFE:

"...there is a very real sense in which the Christian life itself should be our greatest work of art. Even for the great artist, the most crucial work of art is his life."

~ Francis Schaeffer, Art And The Bible

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Oct 04, 2017

THE TEMPLE PRECIOUS STONES:

"There was no pragmatic reason for the precious stones. They had no utilitarian purpose. God simply wanted beauty in the temple. God is interested in beauty."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Jun 14, 2017

KING JAMES PRAYERS:

"Must I always pray using King James English, the thee's and thou's, for example? To think so is a mark of a bourgeois mind. Christians must absolutely and consciously separate themselves from such thinking."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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Jun 13, 2017

DIFFERENT ART:

"It is perfectly legitimate for a Christian to reject a particular work of art intellectually--that is, because he knows what is being said by it. But it is another thing to reject the work of art simply because the style is different from that which we are used to."

~ Dr. Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible

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