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How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back
Da Capo Lifelong Books
October 2008
On Sale: September 29, 2008
448 pages
ISBN: 0306817500
EAN: 9780306817502
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By the time he was nineteen, Frank Schaefferβs parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer, had achieved global fame as bestselling evangelical authors and speakers, and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. He would go on to speak before thousands in arenas around America, publish his own evangelical bestseller, and work with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson. But all the while Schaeffer felt increasingly alienated, precipitating a crisis of faith that would ultimately lead to his departureβeven if it meant losing everything. With honesty, empathy, and humor, Schaeffer delivers βa brave and important bookβ (Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog)βboth a fascinating insiderβs look at the American evangelical movement and a deeply affecting personal odyssey of faith.
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