Francis Schaeffer and L'Abri:The Story of a Prophet and His Legacy to Evangelicals

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Francis Schaeffer and L'Abri:

The Story of a Prophet and His Legacy to Evangelicals

by

Daniel Routh

INTR 521: Historical Foundations

Dr. Paul Pierson

July 29, 2005

I. A FIRST GLIMPSE OF SCHAEFFER AND L'ABRI

In the autumn of 1958, Marte Herrell was a student at the University of Lausanne in

Switzerland. Marte was a non-believer, but one day she was persuaded to visit a Bible study at a small

café near the university. The Bible teacher was one Dr. Francis Schaeffer, a small man, "with a bulging

forehead, furrowed brow, and goatee beard," as J.I. Packer later described him. Marte listened with

mixed emotions as Dr. Schaeffer taught from the book of Romans. "I was fascinated and exasperated

that such an intelligent man as Schaeffer could believe that the Bible was true," she said later.

But the café Bible study was only the entranceway to Marte's pilgrim progress. For Dr.

Schaeffer's daughter Susan also went to Marte's university. One day she invited Marte to come visit

their family chalet tucked away in the Alps.