Schaeffer’s Staircase in the Enlightenment
To help us tell this part of the story we are going to have to borrow a very helpful picture in the twentieth century from Francis Schaeffer. In one of his books he began to develop an idea. It was a picture that attempted to show how ideas move... [ ... ]
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