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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

Frank Schaeffer

Hardcover | Pages: 448 pages

Rating: 3.67 | 1976 Users | 321 Reviews

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Title	:	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
Author	:	Frank Schaeffer
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 448 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2007 by Da Capo Press (first published September 28th 2007)
Categories	:	Religion. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Politics. Christianity

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Frank Schaeffer grew up in Switzerland's L'Abri, an idealistic community founded by his parents, the American evangelicals Francis and Edith Schaeffer. By the time he was 19, his parents had achieved global fame as best-selling authors and speakers, l'Abri had become a mecca for spiritual seekers worldwide — from Barbara Bush to Timothy Leary — and Frank had joined his father on the evangelical circuit. By the age of 23, he had directed two multi-part religious documentaries and had helped instigate the marriage between the American evangelical community and the anti-abortion movement. But as he spoke before thousands in arenas around America, published his own evangelical bestseller, and worked with such figures as Pat Robertson, Jack Kemp, Jerry Falwell, and Dr. James Dobson, Schaeffer felt alienated, precipitating his own crisis of faith and eventually resulting in his departure. Schaeffer has since become a successful secular author. He was reduced to stealing pork chops from the grocery store in LA, rather than take on any more high-paying evangelical speaking gigs. With its up-close portraits of the leading figures of the American evangelical movement, Crazy for God is a uniquely revealing and powerful memoir, which tells its story with empathy, humor, and bite.

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Original Title:	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
ISBN:	0786718919 (ISBN13: 9780786718917)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.67 From 1976 Users | 321 Reviews

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I hope this book makes me a better person of faith, or more self-aware. I take lessons/reflections. But more, it just tells a complex human story. When the child of Christian apologist Schaeffer tells all the messy and as he says even abusive family elements, its really serious. The weight of responsibility and loneliness of his father, the martyr perception yet force of personality of his mother. Frank claims that he gave intellectual weight to anti-abortion as an issue of the Religious Right,

A second read is always a good thing. It was on my second read that I figured out that this is truly a brilliant book by an insider of the corrupt American Evangelical scene who is also an incisive writer. This is a mandatory textbook for Evangelicals in India who lick the arses of their white, imperial, neo-colonial masters across the sea for giving them an 'anchor' ideology and the support of the almighty dollar on how to or how not to follow Yeshua the Messiah, depending on how you read it!

Frank Schaffers sometimes fascinating, but ultimately frustrating, memoir never delivers on the promise of its subtitle, How I .. helped found the religious right, and lived to take all (or almost all) of it back.In fact, Crazy for God suffers from an almost complete lack of context. The listener doesnt learn much about how the religious right formed or how it influenced Republican politics, or anything about the movements champions beyond Schaffers terse judgments of them. (James Dobson is

One of the things I most enjoy in reading any book, it to be taken into a world I have never experienced. For an autobiography to take me into a new world is a double achievement. Frank Schaeffer's Crazy for God, achieves this and more. I came to this book hoping to learn about a religious world that was unknown to me. I finished with a better appreciation for more than just the theology of the evangelical.Who knew that American Evangelicals would ever think of sending a mission into

I enjoyed reading about Frank Schaeffer's journey as he examines both his faith and upbringing in a very right wing evangelical family. I enjoyed his comments and openness about his family and personal struggles. He can come across at times very bitter, but this is to be expected and is part of his struggle. I was most interested as to the effects all of this had on his own family and the steps he was willing to take to build a relationship with his children.

Maybe you can judge a book by its cover; or at least its title. Yes, Frank Schaeffer is long winded and doesnt know when to stop writing. As a former evangelical I was very interested in this book since I also left the movement and had to deal with family members who still do not agree with my decision. I thought Schaeffer, being a pastors son, might have stories even crazier than my own. My need for drama was not satisfied. I still feel that I have even bigger fish stories than the ones

Frank Schaeffer provides a glimpse into the life of a family that is greatly loved and revered in Christian circles, especially Reformed circles. He tells his story honestly from his own perspective. While he does write about positive aspects of his family life and characteristics of his parents that he valued, his overall tone is critical and full of regret. He makes the point that "superstar" Christian families are not perfect, and he seems to be seeking to expose the imperfections, whether to