How long does it take to read He Is There and He Is Not Silent?
Does It Make Sense to Believe in God?
He Is There and He Is Not Silent by Francis A. Schaeffer takes about 2 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 21 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1972. 128 pages, about 35,200 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This book deals with one of the most fundamental of all questions: how we know, and how we know we know. Unless our epistemology is right, everything is going to be wrong. That is why I say that this book goes with The God Who Is There -- a link emphasized by its title. The infinite-personal God is there, but also he is not silent; that changes the whole world. Wittgenstein, in his Tractatus, can find only silence in the area of values and meaning. Bergman made the same point in his film Silence. This book challenges their pessimism. He is there. He is not silent. - Introduction.
Subjects: Philosophy, Christianity, Theory of Knowledge, Christianity, philosophy, Knowledge, theory of
