Editing Francis Schaeffer (section)

== Films ==

Schaeffer was persuaded to adapt his book ''[[How Should We Then Live?|How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture]]'' to film by Gospel Films, Inc. CEO and executive evangelical media producer [[Billy Zeoli]] who pitched the idea of hiring Schaeffer's then recently married son, teenage father, and painter Frank Schaeffer as a producer for the film project.  Zeoli was instrumental in providing the Schaeffers with introductions to wealthy American evangelicals who would eventually bankroll the ''How We Should Then Live'' film project. This book is still being read and used today in American Universities as well as in various small group studies to help shed light on the contemporary cultural problems of the past and how they have led to many of the issues that America is facing today.<ref>{{Cite web | publisher = Christian leadership institute |url= https://www.christianleadersinstitute.org/bible-school/the-late-dr-francis-schaeffer |title=The Late Dr. Francis Schaeffer | work = Free Ministry Training – Ordination |date= June 5, 2011 |language= en-US |access-date= September 15, 2016}}</ref> 

Issues such as race, apathy, abortion, and the non-compassionate use of wealth are topics still relevant today. Schaeffer argues that the humanist base for morals is fundamentally a weak base upon which to build a moral framework for society. By contrast, the Bible, understood as the revealed revelation from God is able to provide a fundamentally sound basis for societal norms as well as a base for science. The president of [[Christian Leaders Institute]] (CLI), Henry Reyenga Jr., secured rights to post this film series in an ethics class at CLI. This [[freemium]] ministry training school lists "deceased" Francis Schaeffer on its faculty.<ref>{{Cite web | publisher = Christian leadership institute |url= https://www.christianleadersinstitute.org/bible-school/the-late-dr-francis-schaeffer |title=The Late Dr. Francis Schaeffer | work = Free Ministry Training – Ordination |date= June 5, 2011 |language= en-US |access-date= September 15, 2016}}</ref>

The American distribution of the book and film was responsible for bringing many evangelical [[Protestantism in the United States|Protestants]] into the then largely [[Roman Catholic]] public protest movement against the [[United States Supreme Court]] ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' decision, {{ussc |410|113|1973}} supporting [[abortion|legal abortion]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Randall Balmer |title=The Real Origins of the Religious Right |url=https://politi.co/2JsQoNr |access-date=2022-05-04 |website=POLITICO Magazine |date=May 27, 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

* ''How Should We Then Live?  The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture'' (1976). Frank Schaeffer produced his father Francis Schaeffer's film series, which was released with a book by the same title.
* ''Whatever Happened to the Human Race? '' (1979). A Christian response to abortion, [[euthanasia]], and [[infanticide]], narrated by Francis Schaeffer and future [[C. Everett Koop|Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop]]; it was released with a book by the same title.