Frank Schaeffer

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Frank Schaeffer (born August 3, 1952 in Champéry , Switzerland ) is an American screenwriter, author, director, painter and speaker who turned away from his original evangelical Christianity, which he addresses and justifies in lectures and books.

Life

Schaeffer is the son of the well-known and influential theologian and apologist Francis Schaeffer and his wife Edith Schaeffer-Seville, who was the daughter of a missionary . He and his sisters grew up mainly in a mountain village in western Switzerland , in Huémoz-sur-Ollon , where his parents founded and ran the Christian community center L'Abri for young intellectuals in 1955 . This environment and the polio he suffered had a lasting impact on him. He attended schools in England and Wales and studied art in Geneva . He worked as a painter and had noted exhibitions in Geneva, London and New York .

Under the influence of his father, he made films and wrote books on theological, philosophical, artistic, cultural, historical and political subjects. After the death of his father, Schaeffer turned away from his parents' evangelical faith and joined the Orthodox Church in 1990 because he was fascinated by its contradictions and mysteries. He converted to the Greek Orthodox Church in Newburyport , Massachusetts in 1992 .

Schaeffer published his God trilogy in 2007-2011 . His first work was his autobiography, Crazy for God: How I Raised One of the Chosen ... He wrote what it meant for him to be raised in the devout Schaeffer family and in the community of L'Abri. Then in 2009 Patience with God appeared. Belief for people who don't like religion and atheism. He criticized both Christian fundamentalists and the new atheists, took an intermediate position and referred to himself as "Christian atheists". In 2011, he published the essay, Sex, Mama, and God , in which he described his parents and the role they played in the rise of the American religious right . He argued that fear of female sexuality was the root cause of religious rights and specifically influenced her position on abortion .

Schaeffer is married to Genie, has several children and lives near Boston on the east coast of the USA.

Books

In English

  • A Time For Anger: The Myth of Neutrality. Crossway, Westchester 1982.
  • Addicted to Mediocrity: 20th Century Christians and the Arts. Crossway, Westchester 1982.
  • Bad News For Modern Man as Franky Schaeffer. Crossway, Westchester 1984.
  • A Modest Proposal. With Harold Fickett. Crossway, Westchester 1984.
  • Is Capitalism Christian? (Ed.) Crossway, Westchester 1985. ISBN 978-0-89107-362-8 .
  • Sham Pearls For Real Swine. Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Brentwood 1990.
  • Portofino. Novella, 1st Calvin Becker trilogy. Macmillan, New York 1992. ISBN 978-0-7867-1716-3 .
  • Dancing Alone: ​​The Quest for Orthodox Faith in the Age of False Religion. Holy Cross, Brookline 1994.
  • Letters to Father Aristotle. Regina, Salisbury 1995.
  • Saving grandma. Novella, 2nd Calvin Becker trilogy. Berkley, New York 1997.
  • Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the US Marine Corps. 1st military trilogy, with his son John Schaeffer. Carol & Graf, New York 2002.
  • Zermatt. Novella, 3rd Calvin Becker trilogy. Carol & Graf, New York 2003. ISBN 978-0-7867-1259-5 .
  • Faith of Our Sons: Voices From the American Homefront - The Wartime Diary of a Marine's Father. 2nd military trilogy. Carol & Graf, New York 2004.
  • Voices From the Front: Letters Home From American's Military Family. 3rd military trilogy. Carol & Graf, New York 2004. ISBN 978-0-7867-1462-9 .
  • Baby jack. Novella. Carol & Graf, New York 2006.
  • AWOL: The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service — and How It Hurts Our Country. With Kathy Roth-Douquet. HarperCollins, New York 2006. ISBN 978-0-06-088859-6 .
  • Crazy for God: 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. Carol & Graf, New York 2007. ISBN 978-0-7867-1891-7 .
  • How Free People Move Mountains: A Male Christian Conservative and a Female Jewish Liberal on a Quest for Common Purpose and Meaning. With Kathy Roth-Douquet. HarperCollins, New York 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-123352-4 .
  • Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism). Da Capo, Cambridge 2009. ISBN 978-0-306-81854-7 .
  • Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway. Da Capo, Cambridge 2011. ISBN 978-0-306-81928-5 .
  • And God said, "Billy". Outskirts, Colorado 2013. ISBN 978-1-4787-0001-2 .
  • Why I am a Atheist who believes in God. How to give Love, Create Beauty and find Peace. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

As a German translation

Movies

  • How should we then live? The rise and decline of western thought and culture. 1976. Schaeffer produced a film series of his father Francis Schaeffer's book with the title: How can we live? The rise and fall of Western culture.
  • Whatever Happened to the Human Race? 1979. A Christian Response to Abortion, Euthanasia, and Infanticide, Narrated by Francis Schaeffer and Surgeon General Dr. Everett Co-op; based on a book of the same title.
  • Wired to kill. 1986. Screenplay and director. Post-apocalyptic action film with Devin Hoelscher and Merritt Butrick.
  • Headhunters. 1989. Director. Occult horror film with John Fatooh, June Chadwick and Steve Kanaly.
  • Rising Storm. 1990. Director. Futuristic action film starring Zach Galligan and June Chadwick.
  • Baby on board. 1992. Director. Slam comedy with Judge Reinhold and Carol Kane.

Web links

  • [4] Homepage of Frank Schaeffer
  • [5] Art by Frank Schaeffer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] L'Abri, the founding of his parents
  2. ^ [2] Schaeffer's website
  3. ^ [3] Schaeffer's blog at www.orthodoxytoday.org
personal data
SURNAME Schaeffer, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter, writer, director, painter, and public speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Champéry , Switzerland