Francis Schaeffer at the 1981 L’Abri Conference in Urbana-Champaign, ... He claimed that the rise of secular humanism during the Renaissance had led to the corruption of Western civilization.

But Schaeffer took that inchoate and somewhat shapeless fear and gave it coherence and force in the 1970s. In his sermons and writings, Schaeffer characterized the history of western civilization as a ...

“It tells us that secular humanism doesn’t answer the very real human need for meaning and purpose – eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die, is a great way to live for a while but ...

Let me be clear: I'm not arguing that Francis is a secular humanist, or capital-h Humanist, by any means. Instead, let's call him a Christian humanist, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday praised the late Pope Francis as a “defender” of humanism and justice and lauded his efforts to foster dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox ...

Ryan Lizza’s excellent profile of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), which I mentioned earlier, frames the GOP presidential candidate as the product of a very particular brand of Christian ...

Francis Schaeffer, ... But there’s little suggestion, in the general brunt of the emerging religious right’s brief against the secular humanist enemy, ...

Pope Francis has said it is “useless” to seek solutions to ills and problems in the Church through “conservatism and fundamentalism” and warned against a faith that is “locked in ...

‘Do you know what secular humanism is?” asked Norman Lear a few months ago, subtly knocking the term in a letter to what he called “a number of well-known educators, artists, and … ...

Francis Schaeffer. A Presbyterian ... Schaeffer disdained secular humanism, the worldview that cast aside the core message of the Christian faith in favor of one devoid of Christian values.