"The Christian world view can be divided into what I call a major and a minor theme. . . . The minor theme is the abnormality of the revolting world. . . . The major theme is the opposite of the minor; it is the meaningfulness and purposefulness of life.... The Christian and his art have a place for the minor theme because man is lost and abnormal and the Christian has his own defeatedness. There is not only victory and song in my life. But the Christian and his art don't end there. He goes on to the major theme because there is an optimistic answer....

If our Christian art only emphasizes the major theme, then it is not fully Christian but simply romantic art.... Older Christians may wonder what is wrong with this art and wonder why their kids are turned off by it, but the answer is simple. It's romantic. It's based on the notion that Christianity has only an optimistic note."


Francis Schaeffer, Art and the Bible