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Francis August Schaeffer January 30, — May 15, [ 1 ] was an American evangelical theologian , philosopher , and Presbyterian pastor.

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In , Schaeffer graduated magna cum laude from Hampden—Sydney College. The same year he married Edith Seville, the daughter of missionary parents who had been with the China Inland Mission founded by Hudson Taylor. Schaeffer then enrolled at Westminster Theological Seminary in the fall and studied under Cornelius Van Til presuppositional apologetics and J.

Gresham Machen doctrine of inerrancy. In , Schaeffer transferred to Faith Theological Seminary , graduating in This seminary was newly formed as a result of a split between the Presbyterian Church of America now the Orthodox Presbyterian Church and the Bible Presbyterian Church , a Presbyterian denomination more identified with Fundamentalist Christianity and premillennialism.

Schaeffer was the first student to graduate and the first to be ordained in the Bible Presbyterian Church. Louis, Missouri. In , the Schaeffer family moved to Switzerland and in established the community called L'Abri French for ' the shelter '. Schaeffer received numerous honorary degrees.