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" ...Already men are partway to the gospel, for they too believe man is dead, dead in the sense of being meaningless. Christianity alone gives reason for this meaninglessness, that their revolt has separated them from God who exists, and thus gives them the true explanation of the position to which they have come. But we cannot take advantage of our opportunity, if we let go in either thought or practice the methodology of antithesis (that is, that A is A and A is not non-A). If a thing is true, the opposite is not true; if a thing is right, the opposite is wrong.
If our own young people within the churches and those of the world outside see us playing with the methodology of synthesis, in our teaching and evangelism, in our policies and institutions, we can never expect to take advantage of this unique opportunity presented by the death of romanticism. If we let go of our sense of antithesis, we will have nothing left to say. "
― Francis A. Schaeffer , The God Who Is There
