![]() The October 1995 issue of The Christian Activist featured a long article by Fr. In particular, The Christian Activist is highly anti-Catholic and opposes the ecumenical work engaged in by Pope John Paul II on the Catholic side and Patriarch Bartholomew on the Orthodox side. The journal is oddly named its title suggests a broad Christian appeal, but The Christian Activist really should be called The Orthodox Activist, yet even that name would be too broad, since its editorial position does not reflect the position of most orthodox Orthodox (as distinguished from heterodox Orthodox and ultra-orthodox Orthodox, perhaps). Today Frank Schaeffer edits The Christian Activist, a monthly tabloid that is thin on graphics but thick with opinions. The younger man has left his father’s theological house, having discovered the errors of his father’s ways. However that may be, no one today mistakes Schaeffer fils for an advocate of the distinctively Reformed positions advanced by Schaeffer pere. Some of his former co-religionists thought Schaeffer’s rejection of Evangelicalism was even stronger, or at least more sharply toned, than his embrace of Eastern Orthodoxy. His change of religion coincided, more or less, with a slight change of name: Franky Schaeffer became Frank Schaeffer. His energy was inherited by his son, Franky, who became widely known, when rather young, as an up-and-coming Evangelical - until he ceased to be an Evangelical by becoming Eastern Orthodox. Francis Schaeffer was a noted Reformed writer, not so much a theologian as a controversialist. ![]()
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