Posted on 08/23/2020 7:22:11 PM PDT by Twotone
Perhaps no one has done more to narrow the gap between progressive evangelicalism and mainstream evangelicalism than Tim Keller. Keller grew up in a mainline Lutheran church. As a teenager, during confirmation class, a young Lutheran cleric and social activist introduced him to a Christian version of social liberation grounded in a “spirit of love.” However, the Kellers soon started attending a conservative Methodist church which helped reinforce their son’s more traditional conception of God and the reality of hell.[1] What he could not harmonize as a teenager—the ethics of the New Left and orthodox Christianity—he started learning to reconcile in college.
While attending Bucknell University, in his home state of Pennsylvania, Keller learned the “reigning ideologies of the time” from radical professors, including the “neo-Marxist critical theory of the Frankfurt School.”[2] He was attracted to this “critique of American bourgeoisie society,” as well as social activism. Keller described himself and fellow students as wanting to “change the world” by rejecting things like “the military-industrial complex” and “a society of inequities and materialism.” Instead, they promoted “peace and understanding,” attended peace and civil rights marches, and shut down the college to debate the morality of the Cambodian invasion in 1970.[3] Though things like segregation and “systemic violence . . . against blacks” bothered Keller before college, they became an occasion for him to doubt Christianity itself after his arrival.[4]
It was hard enough for the young student to maintain his faith while regularly hearing philosophical objections to it, living a “double life,” and struggling with deep depression.[5] There were times he wondered if he was “just a cog in a machine” determined by his environment.[6] However, the “spiritual crisis” he experienced as a student was also the result of a tension between his more activist “secular friends” and Christians...
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Sounds a lot like the boy had one basic need not addressed from the start: he was not a Christian first, so the spirit was not under a proper Holy Spirit guidance. I wonder if he has ever addressed that first principle?
You both right. He is wolf and very dangerous. Many sound churches buy his books. That is how these men get a foothold.
They get a foothold because a demonic brilliance is in them, guiding their deceptions. Sadly, too many churches are not teaching the Gospel or teaching what GOD has given us for life and Godliness, namely HIS WORD.
More foundational, he seems to be missing a view of the absoluteness of God and an attendant high view of scripture.
Never heard of him
“social justice” is an absolutely poisonous term. Whatever it is, it’s a pathetic counterfit for love.
All mankind is...likely every culture, including native African blacks, native Americans...
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