Douglas Groothuis of Denver Seminary reviews two recent biographies of Francis Schaeffer. This reviews are valuable in their own right, but what caught my attention was his humorous aside as to the much overused description, "authentic."
As he puts it, "I fear that the younger generation of evangelicals do not know enough about the remarkable life and achievements of Francis Schaefer; instead they are opting for the trendy but intellectually barren hype of much of the emergent church movement-which claims to be 'authentic.' ('Authentic' often means little more than emotional, unconventional, and obsessively autobiographical.)"
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I find your post to be so authentic
Represent.
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