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L'Abri
L'Abri (French for "the shelter") is an Evangelicalism, evangelical Christian organisation which was founded on June 5, 1955 by Francis Schaeffer and his wife Edith Schaeffer, Edith in Ollon, Huémoz-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. They opened their Alps, alpine home as a ministry to curious travelers and as a forum to discuss philosophical and religious beliefs. Today, L'Abri houses in various parts of the world continue to offer people a place to stay when they travel. Development of L'Abri In 1947 Francis and Edith moved to Switzerland to work as missionaries for the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (IBPFM) in Europe.Burson and Walls, p. 40. Following a spiritual crisis in 1951, and disagreements with theologians such as Carl McIntire, Schaeffer and his wife left IBPFM in 1955, to pursue their dream of working with young people. They moved to Huémoz where they would establish L'Abri. Word of mouth soon led to an increasing stream of visitors, with one period in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Stuart Smith
Jane Stuart Smith, also known on the stage as Gianna Stuart, (September 29, 1925 – January 14, 2016) was an American soprano, hymnologist, and author. A native of Virginia, Smith trained as a singer at Hollins College, the Juilliard School, the Tanglewood Music Center, and privately under her principal voice teacher Ettore Verna. She had an active international career as an opera singer during the 1950s. Making her opera debut in Detroit in 1951, she had a prominent career in opera houses in Europe, especially Italy. She was acclaimed for her portrayals of Brünnhilde in Wagner's ''Ring'' cycle and the title role in Puccini's ''Turandot''. Smith abandoned her successful opera career after becoming a born-again Christian, making her last opera appearance in 1959. Thereafter she devoted her life to Christian service. She worked for the evangelical Christian organization L'Abri and resided in that organization's religious commune in Huémoz-sur-Ollon, Switzerland. In add ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Schaeffer
Francis August Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984) was an American evangelical theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor. He co-founded the L'Abri community in Switzerland with his wife Edith Schaeffer, , a prolific author in her own right. Opposed to theological modernism (which prefers, e.g., rationalism and religious experience over following religious traditions based on revelation), Schaeffer promoted what he claimed was a more historic Protestant faith and a presuppositional approach to Christian apologetics, which he believed would answer the questions of the age. Schaeffer distinguished between the terms ''rationalism'' and ''rational'':"Humanism in the larger, more inclusive sense is the system whereby men and women, beginning absolutely by themselves, try rationally to build out from themselves, having only Man as their integration point, to find all knowledge, meaning and value. We must also ensure that the word ''rationalism'', which means ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Schaeffer
Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer (née Seville; November 3, 1914 – March 30, 2013) was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. She was the wife of Francis Schaeffer, and the mother of Frank Schaeffer and three other children. Early life Schaeffer was born in Wenzhou, China, the fourth child of George Seville, George and Jessie Seville, missionaries who were serving in China with the China Inland Mission. In addition to her English name, her parents gave her the Chinese name Mei Fuh, meaning "beautiful happiness". Schaeffer attended Beaver College in Glenside, Pennsylvania. It was there that she met Francis Schaeffer and they were married in 1935. They had four children: Priscilla, Susan, Deborah and Frank Schaeffer, Frank. L'Abri They were sent in 1948 to Switzerland by the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. In 1955 they began L'Abri, a community that welcomed people who were seeking intellectually honest and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Rookmaaker
Henderik Roelof "Hans" Rookmaaker (February 27, 1922 – March 13, 1977) was a Dutch Christian scholar, professor, and author who wrote and lectured on art theory, art history, music, philosophy, and religion. In 1948 he met Christian theologian Francis Schaeffer and became a member of L'Abri in Switzerland. Rookmaaker and his wife Anky opened a Dutch branch of L'Abri in 1971. Following a doctorate in art history with a dissertation on Gauguin at the University of Amsterdam, he founded the art history department at the Free University in Amsterdam. Rookmaaker addressed ambiguity about art among Christians and ambiguity about faith among artists. His main thesis was laid out in his 1970 publication entitled ''Modern Art and The Death of a Culture''. He lectured in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, as well as in his native Netherlands. Two books by Rookmaaker were published posthumously: ''Art Needs No Justification'' in 1978 and ''The Creative Gift : Essays on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Os Guinness
Ian Oswald Guinness (born September 30, 1941) is an English author, theologian and social critic now based in Fairfax County, Virginia; he has lived in the United States since 1984. Early life and education Ian Oswald Guinness was born in China, during World War II, as his parents served there as medical missionaries, specifically, in Hsiang Cheng, on 30 September 1941. Guinness is the great-great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, a Dublin brewer. and so is of Irish descent. His parents named him after Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher Oswald Chambers. Guinness returned to England in 1951 for secondary school and eventual college. He completed an undergraduate degree at the University of London ( Bachelor of Divinity with honours, 1966) and a social sciences/theology D.Phil. from Oriel College at Oxford University in 1982, where he studied under Peter L. Berger. Career In the late 1960s, Guinness was a leader at the L'Abri community in Switzerland, and, after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wade Bradshaw
Wade, WADE, or Wades may refer to: Places in the United States * Wade, Maine, a town * Wade, Mississippi, a census-designated place * Wade, North Carolina, a town * Wade, Ohio, an unincorporated community * Wade Township, Clinton County, Illinois * Wade Township, Jasper County, Illinois * Wade County, Choctaw Nation, a former political subdivision * Wades Branch, a river in Tennessee People, fictional characters and mythological creatures * Wade (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Wade (surname), including a list of people and fictional characters * Wade (folklore), a being from Germanic mythology and folklore Other uses * ''Wade'' (film), a 2020 Indian animated short film * World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) * Wade Ceramics, manufacturers of porcelain and earthenware; known for making "Whimsies" * WADE (AM), a radio station in Wadesboro, North Carolina, United States * Wade–Giles, a method of Romanisation of Chinese, sometimes abb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communal Meal
A communal meal is a meal eaten by a group of people. Also referred to as communal dining, the practice is centered on food and sharing time with the people who come together in order to share the meal and conversation. Communal dining can take place in public establishments like restaurants, college cafeterias, or in private establishments (home). It often but not always serves a social, symbolic and/or ceremonial purpose. For some, the act of eating communally defines humans as compared to other species. Communal meals have long been of interest to both archeologists and anthropologists. Much scholarly work about communal eating has focused on special occasions but everyday practices of eating together with friends, family or colleagues is also a form of communal eating. Communal eating is closely bound up with commensality (the sociological concept of eating with other people). Communal eating is also bound up with eating and drinking together to cement relations, to establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochester, Minnesota
Rochester is a city in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. It is located along rolling bluffs on the Zumbro River's south fork in Southeast Minnesota. At the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city had a population of 121,395, making it Minnesota's List of cities in Minnesota, third-most populous city. The Rochester metropolitan area, Minnesota, Rochester metropolitan area, which also includes the nearby rural agricultural areas, had a population of 226,329 in 2020. The city is the home and birthplace of Mayo Clinic. History Several indigenous peoples such as Dakota people, Dakota, Ojibway, and Ho-Chunk inhabited the Rochester area. The area developed as a stagecoach stop between Saint Paul, Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Dubuque, Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa near the Zumbro River. The community was founded by George Head and his wife Henrietta who built a log cabin named Head's Tavern in 1854 and named the city after his hometown of Rochester, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area and population, and is the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. Its capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a population of 10.6 million, and a low population density of ; 88% of Swedes reside in urban areas. They are mostly in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden's urban areas together cover 1.5% of its land area. Sweden has a diverse Climate of Sweden, climate owing to the length of the country, which ranges from 55th parallel north, 55°N to 69th parallel north, 69°N. Sweden has been inhabited since Prehistoric Sweden, prehistoric times around 12,000 BC. The inhabitants emerged as the Geats () and Swedes (tribe), Swedes (), who formed part of the sea-faring peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
