How Should We Then Live?

by Francis Schaeffer

Crossway/Good News Publishers

2005 edition

In what is probably his most well-known book, How Should We Then Live?, Francis Schaeffer uses history, religion, philosophy, art, music, literature, and culture as a background for a discussion of society and how we should be living if we are under God’s direction. Personally, I would like to see all of our children study this book before they graduate from high school. I recognize that many of them will find the range of information and ideas presented overwhelming, so I would not recommend such a study until junior or senior level. Before then, teens are unlikely to have acquired the cultural literacy necessary to understand ideas Schaeffer speaks about in this book. A video series by the same title is a little easier to understand than the book, so you might consider it as an alternative. (Videos are available through Christian Book Distributors, and other sources.)