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To: Dr. Thorne
Tim Keller - A great intellect, but not an Evangelical. Keller is a mainline Protestant of the diocesan variety and should not be included.

REv. Keller is PCA, which I have never heard referred to as "mainline".

24 posted on 04/03/2014 3:19:01 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("He will swallow up death forever")
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To: Lee N. Field; Dr. Thorne

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), of which Rev. Tim Keller is a member, is the second largest Presbyterian church body and the largest conservative Reformed denomination in the United States.

The PCA split off from PCUSA because of the latter’s trend towards Theological liberalism.

The churches of the PCA sought to reaffirm the Westminster Confession of Faith as the fullest and clearest exposition of biblical faith, which many conservatives felt that PCUSA presbyteries had been violating by recieveing ministers who refused to affirm the Virgin birth and bodily resurrection, and to call all pastors and leaders to affirm the inerrancy of Scripture. As a result they also felt the church should disavow the ordination of wome


30 posted on 04/03/2014 3:31:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (uestion)
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