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How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture is unavailable, but you can change that!

As one of the foremost evangelical thinkers of the twentieth century, Francis Schaeffer long pondered the fate of declining Western culture. In this brilliant book he analyzed the reasons for modern society’s state of affairs and presented the only viable alternative: living by the Christian ethic, acceptance of God’s revelation, and total affirmation of the Bible’s morals, values, and meaning. ...

Door, which he made between 1403 and 1424, Ghiberti still used the Gothic panel frames, though the subject matter within the panels was much more free. By the time Ghiberti reached the wonder of the eastern portal (1425–1452)—called by Michelangelo the Golden Gate of Paradise—the Gothic frames were completely gone and the Renaissance was in bloom. The transition from the Gothic period to the Renaissance period can be seen and felt most clearly at the wonderful doors of the Baptistry. During the change
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