Barry Hankins

Barry Hankins (PhD, Kansas State University) is professor of history and graduate program director in the history department at Baylor University. His most recent work is Jesus and Gin: Evangelicalism, the Roaring Twenties and Today’s Culture Wars, and his book Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America won the 2009 John Pollock Award for Christian Biography. Hankins’s articles have appeared in the journals Church History, Religion and American Culture, Journal of Church and State, Fides et Historia, and others. He lives with his wife Becky in Waco, Texas.

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The Mark of a Schaefferite

The Lasting Legacy of Francis Schaeffer

Christian scholars cherish his thinking, culture warriors laud his political engagement, and Newsweek called him "The Guru of Fundamentalism." The late Francis Schaeffer is often quoted and much revered among Christians, but some contest his nature of his contribution. Who was this man and why has he left such an impression on us? Schaeffer scholar Barry Hankins explores his life and legacy.

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