What was the Renaissance Idea of Love? @CompassClassroom
What was the Renaissance Idea of Love?  @CompassClassroom
Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Dr. Francis Schaeffer explores how Dante and his contemporaries viewed love as divided into two realms: idealized spiritual love and practical, sensual love. While they acknowledged that sensual love needed a spiritual element to be meaningful, the separation of these two aspects often led to an imbalance, creating more ugliness than beauty.

Dr. Francis Schaeffer traces the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christian perspective. Learn how to apply a Christian worldview from a seminal voice in the evangelical church.

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This is the apologetics and intellectual history series every young Christian should understand.

Francis Schaeffer is perhaps the most influential Christian thinker in the last 100 years and in this book and video series he clearly explains the basics of worldview thinking. Filmed at over 100 locations in eight countries, it is a spectacular presentation of the flow of history, ideas, and cultural analysis from a Christian perspective.

Try a free lesson here: mycompassclassroom.com/courses/how-should-we-then-live/lessons/episode-1-the-roman-age

The fact that the series is nearly 50 years old makes it even more valuable: many of his predictions have come true with startling accuracy. This lends great credibility to his Biblical and cultural insight. The series works best by using the videos and book together. (You will need to buy the book separately.) For those wanting to take this class as a half credit in history/philosophy, we have added in additional learning materials including quizzes, research topics, original sources, and essay questions.

Perfect for homeschool kids!

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