At a ceremony during Tuesday morning’s chapel service, Schaeffer’s daughter, Deborah Middelmann, handed seminary professor Bruce Little a black, leather-bound copy of her father’s copiously noted King James Version of the Bible.

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, located in Wake Forest, NC (near Raleigh/Durham) has landed the collected papers of one of the most important evangelicals of the 20th century, a man credited with giving intellectual heft to the Christian right – Francis Schaeffer.

At a ceremony during Tuesday morning’s chapel service, Schaeffer’s daughter, Deborah Middelmann, handed seminary professor Bruce Little a black, leather-bound copy of her father’s copiously noted King James Version of the Bible.

“Evangelicalism would not have had the cultural influence it has today were it not for Francis Schaeffer,” said Little, tearing up as he held Schaeffer’s Bible.

With that handoff, the Baptist seminary became the custodian of 85 boxes of Schaeffer’s unpublished papers, notes, letters and tape-recorded discussions, most of which were shipped from Switzerland, where Schaeffer and his family lived for many years. Schaeffer, who died in 1984, is second only to Billy Graham among influential American evangelicals of the last half of the 20th century.

Schaeffer is credited with influencing a generation of evangelicals who were transfixed by his message of engaging popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s.

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