He Is There and He Is Not Silent

Experience Afresh the Prolific Work of Francis Schaeffer

As perhaps one of the greatest Christian philosophers of the 20th century, Francis Schaeffer made it his mission to relate Christianity to the surrounding culture’s worldview. His works continue to have relevance as Christians grapple with issues in metaphysics (How do we know we exist?), morals (How do we know right from wrong?), and epistemology (How do we know what we know?). Schaeffer invites readers into a deeper understanding of who they are, who God is, and how they know what they know, as they encounter the infinite personal God who is there and is not silent.

128 pages

“When our world falls apart and we must go back down to the very foundations to rebuild, we do not need slapdash, glib formulas. We need something solid, real, and honest. That is what Francis Schaeffer brilliantly offers us in He Is There and He Is Not Silent. The living God has drawn near to us and made himself known to us. If we rebuild our broken lives with his wisdom, we will have something compelling to say to our generation.”

— Ray Ortlund, Pastor to Pastors, Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee

“I read He Is There and He Is Not Silent in 1976 and professed faith in Christ six months later. This was not a coincidence: Francis Schaeffer’s brilliant book helped to change my life when I was twenty-six. This new edition, I pray, will help to change many more lives. I needed to learn, as Schaeffer says, that God exists and speaks, that we all see with presuppositional glasses, that modern explanations of how everything began ‘are usually semantic mysticisms,’ and that man is abnormal but not hopeless. Young and old people today need to learn that too.”

— Marvin Olasky, Editor in Chief, WORLD Magazine

Table of Contents

Introduction