![]() ![]() Keller’s book would fall into the area of dogmatics commonly known as apologetics. But he must ever keep in mind that his real business is not to demonstrate the truth of the Christian religion to the unbeliever, but to uncover the insincerity of unbelief, for all who reject Christianity do so, consciously or unconsciously, because of their evil will and not because of their pretended “intellectual honesty” (Pieper, Christian Dogmatics, I, 110).Īfter reading Keller’s book, one gets the impression that Keller read Pieper’s quote above. The Christian apologist is in a position to show any rational man, particularly if he have a well-trained mind, that after all it would be more reasonable to accept the claims of Christianity as true than to reject them as false. His other books include: King’s Cross, Generous Justice, Counterfeit Gods, and The Prodigal God. The Reason for God reached #7 on The New York Times bestseller list for non-fiction in March 2008. He was educated at Bucknell University, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. The church currently has about six thousand regular attendees at six weekly services. ![]() He serves at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (in Manhattan, which he and his wife started in 1989. ![]() Timothy Keller is a pastor in the Presbyterian Church in America. ![]()
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